| Scientific Name: | Muehlenbeckia complexa |
| Common Name: | creeping wire vine, maidenhair vine, mattress vine |
| Family Name: | Polygonaceae |
| Origin: | Australia / New Zealand |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 8a: (-12 to -9.5 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Ground cover |
| Mature Size: | 0.1 - 0.2m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Bedding plant, Ground cover |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Lustrous, Elliptic, Entire |
| Flowers: | Raceme, White, Green-yellow, Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Fruit: | Achene, (Accessory tissue), White, Black, Oct-Nov |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Stems wiry, chocolate brown; leaves alternate, most blades broadly elliptical, 7-12mm long x 5-9mm wide, petiole red, 5-11mm long. | |