Silver Carpet Branching Beach-Aster

'Silver Carpet' is a low, dense, trailing perennial with white-tomentose foliage that creates a silver appearance. A profusion of 1 inch pink-lavender flowers cover the mound in late summer. 'Silver Carpet' makes an effective groundcover, especially when allowed to spill down a slope or over a low wall. Its year-round, handsome white foliage blends well with other plants, and its summer blossoms provide welcome cool color in a season when warmer-toned natives - California fuchsias and goldenrods, for example - prevail.

Can become leggy in containers if grown in rich soil.

A Santa Barbara Botanic Garden Introduction. A selection of L. filaginifolia collected by horticulturist Carol Bornstein from coastal bluffs exposed to ocean spray in Monterey County.