Asarina procumbens
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• common name: trailing snapdragon
• flowering season: all summer
• height: 2 to 4 inches, spreading 2 or 3 feet
• Light requirements: sun or partial shade
• Soil requirements: average, freely draining
• Water requirments: average
• Growth habit: trailing and spreading
• How to propagate: from seed or by cuttings
• Leaf type: round, slightly lobed leaves with a covering of thin hairs
• Ways to use it: easily grows in a pot either alone or with other summer-flowering plants; and survives neglect better than most plants grown in a container
• Special characteristics: it is a wonder this plant is so little known because it is so long blooming and easy to grow
If you have a greenhouse you will discover that certain plants kept in pots will seed themselves into the pots of other plants or into the nooks and cranies of the greenhouse floor where they will contentedly live despite neglect. One such seeder is this plant, a relative of snapdragons from the mountains of the Pyrenees between Spain and France. This grows equally well in the garden where you will find it seeding itself about. With spreading, trailing growth, it likes filtered light as well as full sun, and flowers nonstop through summer. The round green leaves are lightly hairy. The flowers are 1½-inches long. A superb plant for a hanging basket where it will drape over the container's edge. USDA Zones 7 - 11.