Whorls of tiny pink flowers are among serrate, lanceolata leaves. Frogfruit attracts many insects to its nectar.
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Whorls of tiny pink flowers are among serrate, lanceolata leaves. Frogfruit attracts many insects to its nectar.
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Lanceleaf Frogfruit (Phyla lanceolata)

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Lanceleaf frogfruit, also known as fogfruit, likes the sun or partial shade and moist or wet soil, full of organic matter. When I have seen it in the field, it has always been associated with a river (floodplain). That said, if you give it exactly what it wants in your yard it can be aggressive.

I’ve got soil that dries out in the summer and I have planted Lanceleaf frogfruit where it gets mostly shade, surrounded by other plants. I was afraid it might disappear from that spot, but it is holding its own.

Flowers are small but very cute and pink/white/lavender. Illinois Wildflowers gives a big list of the insects that eat the nectar of this plant. Tiny flowers are in a whorl and when seeds form, the seed head looks a bit like a tiny thimbleweed, but with no fluff. The leaves are longer than wide with 5-10 teeth on each side.

Give this plant a try as a ground cover, but do make sure you stoop down to get a good look at the flowers!

Companion Plants: common cattail sedge, cardinal flower, iris, sensitive fern, paw paw

Lanceleaf Frogfruit (Phyla lanceolata)

Michigan Flora reference page for state distribution: Lanceleaf Frogfruit

Height: 9-15”

Bloom time: July-Sept

Soil: moist loam, muck, but can tolerate some dry

Sun: sun-part shade or the dappled light of a floodplain

Plant spacing: 6-12”

Flower: pink/white/lavender

Life cycle: perennial

Family: Verbenaceae

Seed source: Michigan

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Lanceleaf frogfruit, also known as fogfruit, likes the sun or partial shade and moist or wet soil, full of organic matter. When I have seen it in the field, it has always been associated with a river (floodplain). That said, if you give it exactly what it wants in your yard it can be aggressive.

I’ve got soil that dries out in the summer and I have planted Lanceleaf frogfruit where it gets mostly shade, surrounded by other plants. I was afraid it might disappear from that spot, but it is holding its own.

Flowers are small but very cute and pink/white/lavender. Illinois Wildflowers gives a big list of the insects that eat the nectar of this plant. Tiny flowers are in a whorl and when seeds form, the seed head looks a bit like a tiny thimbleweed, but with no fluff. The leaves are longer than wide with 5-10 teeth on each side.

Give this plant a try as a ground cover, but do make sure you stoop down to get a good look at the flowers!

Companion Plants: common cattail sedge, cardinal flower, iris, sensitive fern, paw paw

Lanceleaf Frogfruit (Phyla lanceolata)

Michigan Flora reference page for state distribution: Lanceleaf Frogfruit

Height: 9-15”

Bloom time: July-Sept

Soil: moist loam, muck, but can tolerate some dry

Sun: sun-part shade or the dappled light of a floodplain

Plant spacing: 6-12”

Flower: pink/white/lavender

Life cycle: perennial

Family: Verbenaceae

Seed source: Michigan

I usually stick with the name that Michigan Flora uses or the most-used common name. In this case, Michigan Flora uses the name Fogfruit, and I learned the name as Frog-fruit which I LOVE. So, I’m sticking with it.