Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Fruit Feasters, 1 by konkreteblond

konkreteblond wrote:
Actually it's a wildflower! ...that comes up on it's own in the spring. It is a groundcover when it's in unimproved soil and dry but it will grow and spread into a thick plant if you put it in your bed. Mine gets so thick that my son even complained that it was too big! lol I rarely cut it back tho because it blooms constantly and there is always something on it.

I get confused because I see it listed as Frogfruit and Fogfruit. It's Phyla nodiflora, and you would love it! Mine is always covered with little Hairstreaks, tiny little bees or wasp?, and what I think are Hover flies.

I originally bought it because it was supposed to be a host for the Buckeye, but I've not had any cats. I have raised a few tiny Phaon Crescents from some I got growing wild a few years ago.

This is it around the bottom of the picture. It's about a foot high and spreads by runners that are simple to pull up. When it gets too thick I just pull it up and give it a haircut and it bounces right back.