Can you ID this blooming groundcover?

I dunno if it's a tropical, and prolly not, but there are no groundcover forums on here.

Anyone know what this is and what can you tell me about it? It's similar to a baby tears and has pretty little blue flowers, something not very common for many groundcovers I would think. I bought a flat of it at Lowes and they told me to grow it in a shady area, which I'm doing... looks good so far. It's planted on a near-vertical slope behind/underneath a Kentia Palm, which gives it a great canopy of shade.

Here's a pic of how it's planted on the slope... I would like to spread nicely in that area...

Another shot it, zoomed out a little.

A clearer picture would help, but my guess is Laurentia axillaris (Blue Star Creeper) or something closely related to that.

There's a plant identification forum where you can post any sort of plant that you want identified, there are a few cases with plants like irises or japanese maples where there are thousands of different cultivars where you'll have better luck on ID's in one of the plant specific forums, but in general the plant ID forum is the best place to start.
http://davesgarden.com/forums/f/plantid/all/

well after looking up that Laurentia axillaris on google, it appears that it is not that. Those flowers on mine are very tiny, and the Laurentia axillaris' flowers look like they are "normal-sized" blooms.

Thanks for the ID forum tip, I'll try there!

Hard to tell but it may be some kind of lobelia.

Someone else suggested Lobelia once I posted it on the ID forum. Nope, we grow Lobelia every year in our color bowls and Lobelia is not a ground cover as far as I can tell..

I posted this on your ID forum thread too...but I meant Laurentia fluviatilis, that's what I have in my garden, just got the names mixed up. It has really tiny flowers

Well I marked this one solved on the ID forum. It must be the Blue Star Creeper, Laurentia fluviatilis. The only thing is my flowers seem to be a bit deformed. The blooms have the requisite number and shape of petals, but they are not arranged in a uniform shape the way other pictures (I found on Google) portray this flower. The petals seem to have a gap... see the pic.

Kind of odd, maybe they are growing this way b/c they are on a steep slope, almost as if planted on a wall of soil (in my case, clay).

Thanks ecrane3, you win!

it almost looks like some kind of Scaevola.

Well there is a similarity to the flower shape.
Hmmmmm. I dunno now... remember the pics I'm showing are extreme close up.
The Scaevola's look like their flowers are bigger.

I don't think it's Scaevola, on it the petals are usually closer to each other, almost overlapping. I've never seen Laurentia with lopsided flowers like that either though. The steep slope wouldn't change the flower shape, gravity's not that strong!

i know, my flowers are much bigger and i don't know how many kinds of Scaevola there are. it just had that one-sided fan shape look about it.

Pratia

I think that's the same thing as Laurentia, PF lists both as synonyms. Is Pratia a newer more correct name? Everywhere I see the stuff for sale they still label it as Laurentia.

My mistake.
I once planted ( 17 years ago ) both Pratia ( which I think is called Isotoma ) with a plant that is called Mazus.

I think this plant may be mazus.

Sorry no photos of the planting project, but maybe a google search will help to see is this plant might be mazus.

I think Pratia and Isotoma and Laurentia are all names for the same plant, but I have no idea which one is actually the current botanically accepted name. I wish they'd just pick one and stick with it, it would make things so much less confusing!

I think I'll call Lowe's when I get a minute and ask them if they have another flat on sale, and if they can, scan the bar code on it and see what comes up. Or maybe the guy who I talked to there, who seemed to be more knowledgeable about plants than the average Lowe's/HD guy, knows for sure.

there is usually a number on the tag from lowes, if you saved it. you can look up the number online at the lowe's plant site. it says something like, "to learn more about this plant, blah, blah, blah".