Creeping phlox starts our list. In bloom, this attractive ground cover plant has many purple, pink, or white flower heads. It grows slowly and covers open soil, but it may even live on rock structures like wall cracks.
Another ground cover plant, sweet woodruff, grows widely. Its bushy style and star-shaped leaves and occasional white flowers make it beautiful. It may grow to 12 inches tall and 18 inches broad per plant.
Mint is useful plant. The aroma repels wasps, fruit flies, and roaches, and the leaves may be used to spice many recipes. Additionally, mint has garden purposes.
Lamb's ear is lovely with fluffy, floppy leaves that feel velvety due to its thin hairs. Silver, frost-covered leaves provide a dense, bushy look. Another low-growing ground cover plant in the mint family.
Some hosta, or plantain lilies, have thick, plentiful leaves with different colors that fade to pale in the center. Its upright purple or white blossom stalks make it seem tropical rainforest-like. They attract hummingbirds to your yard due of their fragrance.
Though generally called a weed, bugleweed looks nothing like one when flowering. Bugleweed (ajuga) has stunning stalks of small trumpet-shaped purple blooms that may brighten a yard. It blooms again from spring to autumn.
Finally, resilient plumbago deserves some recognition. This ground cover plant has lovely blue blooms with windmill-like petals, despite its rough moniker. In late summer and autumn, it blooms and its green leaves become red.