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, Orbicular, 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, nearly round, mid-green, about 1.5cm long with red petioles.