Chrysogonum australe Eco Lacquered Spider Comptonia and these Canna cultivars are

and these Canna cultivars are amongst the most colorful foliage of all plants

but instead is a member of an obscure plant gang known as the spikemosses

as well as summer flowering when many spring perennials have finished flowering or gone dormant

unirrigated roadside bank where it doesn't spread as fast or get as tall

Chrysogonum australe Eco Lacquered Spider Comptonia and these Canna cultivars are(aka: Chrysogonum virginianum 'Eco Lacquered Spider') Chrysogonum australe is the US Gulf Coast species, which for years was mistakenly lumped with the clumping Chrysogonum virginianum. Instead of clumping, Chrysogonum australe forms a fast spreading evergreen, deer resistant groundcover (4' wide in 2 years) in the moist woodland garden, quickly covering the ground without the need for mulch one of the best North American native woodland groundcovers