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Perennial peanut ideally grows in full sun, and prefers well-drained sites. A variety of methods exist for its landscape establishment – including plugs, sod strips, and sod mats. Planting is best performed from January to March when the plants are not actively growing.
Perennial Peanut is a great ground cover that some people even use as an alternative to grass. Like grass, it can be mowed or walked on. It is drought tolerant and salt tolerant, making it a hardy and easy-to-grow plant.
Florida’s hot summers and sandy soils can pose a challenge for some plants, but not this tough plant. Perennial peanut is a versatile groundcover that can be planted statewide and blooms all summer long with cheerful golden flowers.
These groundcover plants thrive on easements or surround tall palms or upright trees. They can help prevent soil erosion on an embankment (place along the top so the plants grow downhill). As a deep border for a garden bed, perennial peanut creates a formal look, and it can also fill in around landscape boulders.
While perennial peanuts have historically been used as a forage crop and hay, they are now well-adapted for landscape plantings in place of turf areas. Perennial peanuts are drought and salt tolerant, require minimal fertilizer and can be walked on to some degree.
Plant Doctor Tom MacCubbin gives advice on gardening in Florida such as using perennial peanut for ground cover along with care of impatiens, begonias, crotons, pineapple, peace lilies...
Lower-growing selections of rhizoma perennial peanut have been released for ornamental use by University of Florida and USDA-NRCS: ‘ Ecoturf ’, ‘ Arblick ’, ‘Pointed Leaf’ and ‘ Waxy Leaf ’, and the University of Georgia’s ‘ Cowboy ’.