Invasive Runner / Stolon / Rhizome Ground Cover Plants

“Runner” or “Stolon” plants and “Rhizome” plants spread very quickly.

They surely bring immediate foliage in your garden but it comes with a price. You must be able to contain or control them if you don’t want them to be everywhere in your garden. Think twice if you can’t. Here are some plants with runners or rhizomes that spread in no time.

Lily of the Valley

Bugleweed (Ajuga)

Mexican Evening Primrose

Pachysandra

Ground Elder

Snow on the mountain

Yellow Archangel

Periwinkle

Sweet Woodruff

English Ivy

Creeping Jenny

Fern

Chameleon Plant

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