Garden Lady's-mantle

Also known as Lady's-mantle, Soft Lady's-mantle

Dense, velvety hairs coat the scalloped leaves of garden lady's-mantle, creating a superhydrophobic surface that beads morning dew and raindrops into shimmering spheres. Loose sprays of tiny, petal-less chartreuse blossoms rise above the rounded foliage in early summer, attracting a wide variety of solitary bees and hoverflies. While prized as a hardy, weed-suppressing groundcover across temperate gardens, it spreads vigorously by seed and can establish self-sustaining populations in natural waterways and meadows.