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List Details Toronto's Native Groundcover for Water Efficient Gardens Consider these groundcovers that will help shade the soil and do not need watering and fertilizing like sod.
Applicable Province(s):	ON
Applicable Ecozone(s):	Mixedwood Plains
Applicable Ecoregion(s):	Lake Erie Lowlands (Carolinian)
Author:	City Of Toronto, Water Division
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Plants

Image	Plant	Description
	*Carex blanda* Common Name(s): common wood sedge, eastern woodland sedge, creek sedge
	*Fragaria vesca* Common Name(s): woodland strawberry, wood strawberry
	*Fragaria virginiana* Common Name(s): wild strawberry, Virginia strawberry
	*Mitchella repens* Common Name(s): partridgeberry, two eyed berry, checkerberry, deerberry, winter clover, hive vine, one berry, twin berry, squaw vine, squaw berry

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