Vinca minor 'Bowles's Variety' is a trailing, evergreen subshrub prized for forming a low, spreading mat by rooting along its stems. Its glossy, leathery leaves remain through winter and its solitary, five-lobed flowers appear from May to September. The plant commonly roots at nodes to create large clonal colonies and can occasionally scramble to about 40 centimetres high. It does not twine or climb.

Vinca minor 'Bowles's Variety' is a trailing evergreen periwinkle with glossy leaves and violet-purple flowers that bloom from May to September.

Vinca minor 'Bowles's Variety'

Common Periwinkle | Vinca minor 'Bowles's Variety'

Vinca minor 'Gertrude Jekyll' is a trailing subshrub in the Apocynaceae that spreads by rooting along its stems to form mats. It bears glossy, dark green leaves and produces solitary violet-purple flowers in the leaf axils. Flowering occurs from May to September.

Vinca minor 'Gertrude Jekyll' is a trailing periwinkle with glossy dark green leaves and violet-purple flowers from May to September.

Vinca is an Old World genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae. The English name periwinkle is shared with the related genus Catharanthus.