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Liriope spicata is a species of low, herbaceous flowering plant from East Asia. Common names include creeping lilyturf , [ 1 ] creeping liriope , lilyturf , and monkey grass . This perennial has grass-like evergreen foliage and is commonly used in landscaping in temperate climates as groundcover .
Liriope are usually used in the garden for their evergreen foliage as a groundcover. Some species, e.g., L. spicata, grow aggressively in the right conditions, spreading by runners; hence their nickname, "creeping lilyturf". In the southeastern United States Liriope is sometimes referred to by the common name monkey grass or spider grass.
Liriope may refer to: Liriope (nymph), the mother of Narcissus by the river-god Cephissus, according to Ovid's Metamorphoses. Liriope, a genus of lilioid monocot plants, named for the nymph; Liriope, a genus of hydrozoans in the family Geryoniidae; 414 Liriope, a main belt asteroid, also named for the nymph
Liriope muscari is a species of flowering plant from East Asia. Common names in English include big blue lilyturf , lilyturf , border grass , and monkey grass . This small herbaceous perennial has grass-like evergreen foliage and lilac-purple flowers which produce single-seeded berries on a spike in the fall.
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Lilyturf may refer to two closely related genera of flowering plants: Liriope; Ophiopogon
Groundcover of Vinca major. Groundcover or ground cover is any plant that grows low over an area of ground, which protects the topsoil from erosion and drought.In a terrestrial ecosystem, the ground cover forms the layer of vegetation below the shrub layer known as the herbaceous layer, and provides habitats and concealments for (especially fossorial) terrestrial fauna.
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