Blue-Star Creeper (Isotoma)
Pratia pedunculata (Laurentia fluviatilis). CAMPANULACEAE (LOBELIACEAE).
Planting and Growing Blue-Star Creeper
You’ll find everything you need to know to plant and grow blue-star creeper in the accompanying table’s tabs:
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- Flowers, foliage, and root structure of blue-star creeper
- Plant hardiness and growing conditions for blue-star creeper
- Season of bloom and planting time for blue-star creeper
- When, how deep, and where to plant blue-star creeper
- How to plant blue-star creeper
- Watering, fertilizing, care, and pests or diseases of blue-star creeper
- Landscape and container uses of blue-star creeper
- Comments about blue-star creeper and its features
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Growing Blue-Star Creeper
A few cultivars of low, mounding, spreading, or trailing perennial herbs, 3–4 in. (75–100 mm) tall and to 2 ft. (60 cm) wide, with branching, rooting stems. Alternate, smooth, light to deep green, round or lance-shaped leaves, to 1/2-in. (12-mm) long.
Planting and Care Guide
Blooms
Many tiny, blue, white, star-shaped, 5-petaled flowers, to 5/8-in. (16-mm) wide, in ball-shaped clusters, in early summer.
Best Climates
Plant as tender annual, zones 3–7; self-seeding, zones 5–10. Ground hardy, zones 7–10.
Soil Type and Fertility
Moist, well-drained soil. Fertility: Rich–average. 7.0–7.5 pH.
Where and How to Plant
Spring in full sun to partial shade, 8–12 in. (20–30 cm) apart, after frost hazard has passed.
Proper Care
Easy. Keep damp until established; drought tolerant thereafter. Shear after blooms fade to renew, promote repeat blooms.
About This Plant
Good choice for hanging baskets, borders, ground covers, paths in rock gardens. Invasive. Pest and disease resistant.