ABSTRACT
The plants listed have all been used successfully as perennial lawn plants, but it may take some lawn gardening and perhaps slightly more variable mowing regimes to maintain some of them in the long term. In the manner of Argentina anserina it is useful in Tapestry Lawns for its silver-blue leaves, although the creeping species has many small and lifted white flowerheads that turn into sometimes spiny burrs. Similar in appearance to Acaena inermis ‘Purpurea’ with its variably dark chocolate-maroon leaves, this species has eye-catching red burrs and does best in well-drained sunny lawns when mixed with other low-growing species. Amongst the earliest flowering crocus’, Crocus tommasinianus has long tubed flowers that appear at the same time as the narrow almost grass-like leaves. In South Africa's homeland Oxalis purpurea is a sun-loving, summer-deciduous, winter-growing dwarf geophyte that is responsive to rainfall and can be a weed in lawns.
