Little Leaf Creeping Wire Vine
Muehlenbeckia axillaris ‘Nana’
Plant Details
USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 5a-10b  Find Your Zone
Plant Type:Â Evergreen Groundcover
Height or Length at Maturity:Â 4-6″
Width at Maturity:Â 2′ or more
Spacing:Â 18-24″ apart for mass planting
Spacing:Â 18-24″ apart for mass planting
Growth Habit / Form:Â Low, Dense, Mounding, Spreading/Trailing
Growth Rate:Â Moderate to Fast
Flower Color:Â Green
Flower Type:Â Â Single
Flower Size:Â Tiny, inconspicuous
Flowering Period:Â Summer
Flowering Period:Â Summer
Fragrant Flowers:Â No
Foliage Color:Â Olive Green
Fragrant Foliage:Â No
Berries:Â Yes, White
Sun Needs:Â Full Sun or Shade
Water Needs:Â Â Average, low when established
Soil Type:Â Clay, Loam, Sand, Silt
Soil Drainage:Â Well Drained
Soil pH:Â 5.0 – 8.0
Maintenance / Care:Â Low
Attracts:Â Visual Attention
Resistances:Â Deer –Â more info, Disease, Heat, Humidity, Insect,Rabbit, Foot Traffic
Description
Muehlenbeckia axillaris ‘Nana’, commonly known as Little Leaf Creeping Wire Vine, is just like it’s parent but with even smaller leaves! As with its parent, it is a very hardy and vigorous; but with a tighter growth habit and tinier, oval, dark green leaves on wiry stems. Green flowers in spring are followed by white berries. This little wire vine is a tough one; quite tolerant of foot traffic, drought, heat and tolerant, and totally deer and rabbit resistant, making it a fine selection where a low-growing, ground-hugging perennial groundcover or filler plant is needed in the landscape or in container gardens, where it cascades beautifully over the edges and down the sides.Â
Landscape & Garden Uses
Growing in a low mound 3 to 4 inches tall and spreading 24 inches or more, the Little Leaf Creeping Wire Vine has many uses in design. It is ideal for use as a groundcover in sunny or shady landscape borders, as an underplanting for small or large trees, as an erosion controller on embankments and slopes, as a low border plant along paths and walkways, and as a texture and spiller plant in container gardens. Especially nice around boulders.Â
Suggested Spacing:Â 18 to 24 inches apart for mass planting
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Growing Preferences
When planted right and in the right spot, Creeping Wire Vine is exceptionally easy to grow. It prefers a moist but well-drained soil of average fertility but handles dry soil conditions when established. We’ve grown in it both sun and shade and it performs equally as well.Â
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