North Carolina Wildflowers, Shrubs, & Trees

by Jeffrey S. Pippen | Back to Jeff's Plant Page | Jeff's Nature Pages

Lamiaceae > Glechoma
	Creeping Charlie, Creeping Jenny, Gill-over-the-ground, Ground-ivy (Glechoma hederacea) Orange Co., NC 6 Apr 2005 Introduced from Eurasia, this spring-blooming mint is common statewide and common in NC.
	Creeping Charlie, Creeping Jenny, Gill-over-the-ground, Ground-ivy (Glechoma hederacea) Orange Co., NC 6 Apr 2005 Creeping Charlie can form dense mats in lawns, fields, power line cuts, etc.

Annotated habitat and distribution information listed above is from Radford, Ahles, & Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. UNC Press; Alan Weakley's Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia; and from personal observations and discussions with Will Cook, Harry LeGrand, and Bob Wilbur. Supplemental resources include USDA plants website, and NatureServe.