Frogfruit, Turkey Tangle Fogfruit

Frogfruit aka Turkey-tangle Fogfruit, Capeweed or Creeping Charlie  

Botanical Name: Phyla nodiflora   

Description (growth habits, light requirements & care): Looking to replace your non-native turf lawn? Give this beauty a try! This low growing, mat-forming perennial ground cover spreads up to 3-4 feet, creating pollinator mats. Thrives in full sun to partial shade and tolerates a variety of soils, including alkaline and calcareous soils found in Southern Miami-Dade and Monroe County. 

Want butterflies large and small in your yard? This is your plant. Frogfruit is a spreading ground over that will act as the perfect lawn replacement. Spreading easily, forming dense ground cover, that also fights off weeds. Frogfruit is also an excellent choose for hanging baskets and container gardening! 

How you can help by planting this: This incredible native is a larval (caterpillar) host for several native butterflies, including Common Buckeye, White Peacock, and Phaon Crescent. Supports all kinds of other pollinators too, bees, moths, flys and many other small pollinators will visit the flowers  

Flower and Fruit (color, characteristics, season): White to pinkish petals surround a purple
center; flower head is held on erect
stalk about 1 inch or so above the vegetation. Perfect little landing pads for pollinators  

Pairs well with: Sunshine Mimosa, Cheesytoes, River Sage among others native herbaceous ground cover.