Native Groundcovers

Splendid small shrub, with large braces of bright yellow flowers seen often throughout the year. Useful for borders, streetscapes, accent and filling. 0.5-1m.

Spreading decorative groundcover with pink-purple pea shaped flowers and large beans, exploding when ripe. Excellent decorative trailing ground creeper for coastal rehabilitation. esplanades, streetscapes, rural properties and urban gardens.

Gorgeous erect single stalked perennial shrub with brilliant blue violet pea shaped flowers. Excellent colourful specimen for gardens, rockeries and pots. 1m

Hardy and attractive native perennial grass, with distinctive green leaves and white silky heads. Related to the commercial lemon grass, can be used as as substitute as all parts have pleasant lemon scent. Also used in tea, drinks or food flavouring. Important medicinal plant for colds and pain. Provides contrast, border and low screening for urban and rural garden beds, ponds, pools and rockeries. 1.5m

Beautiful native annual or perennial grass, small and slender with delicate purplish soft flower heads. Provides contrast, border and low screening for urban and rural garden beds, ponds, pools and rockeries. 0.8m

Lovely delicate tufted perennial grass for feature garden beds. Grows well in semi-moist environments and even wet or flooded soil. 10–80cm

Delicate and attractive native Gardenia. Common landscaping species, planted as a small shrub or groundcover for its glossy foliage and solitary, white, tubular flowers.

Very pretty small shrub endemic to the NT. Holly like leaves and decorative greenish white to yellow orange pendulous flowers year round. Excellent fast growing, hardy ornamental feature shrub. 1-2m.

Very pretty and hardy low shrub. Often used for feature gardens and landscape plantings for its blooms of showy pink/red flowers which are licked or sucked for the nectar. Bird attractant, needs sun. 1-2m

Impressive spreading ground cover, hedged bush or shrub endemic to the NT. Often used in feature gardens, rockeries and landscape plantings for its grey green leaves and blooms of showy yellow green flowers. Hardy and attractive. Bird attractant, needs sun. 1-2m

A spreading decorative ground creeper growing along the top of Darwin beaches, rocky headlands, parks and streetscapes with beautiful showy pink trumpet shaped flowers seen all year round.

Small, pretty and hardy shrub with attractive dark green foliage and showy masses of red flowers and bright red or black edible fruit. Useful screening and hedging specimen. 1-3 m.

Delicate and highly decorative small shrub with attractive mauve flowers and black drupes when ripe. 1.5-3m

Low dense and pretty tropical bunching palm with long, flat, fibrous leaves. Evergreen ground cover/shrub. Grows thick and strong in both shade and sun. 1m

Lush tropical but hardy sprawling ground cover or vigorous climber with dark green fronds and attractive bronze coloured new growth, which is edible.

A tufted leafy native perennial grass. Bluish to yellow green, maturing to yellowish-brown to red. 2m

Lovely ground cover with green/grey leaves and gorgeous purple to white radiating flowers. Hardy, salt tolerant and water wise creeping specimen for rural & urban gardens as well as streetscapes and coastal areas.