This list shows 75 groundcover plants that are native to your location, and are carried in nurseries. Plants are ordered by their popularity in gardening applications.
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1. Little Bluestem
Schizachyrium scoparium
2. Butterfly Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa
3. Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
4. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
5. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
6. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
7. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
8. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
9. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
10. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
11. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
12. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
13. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
14. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
15. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
16. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
17. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
18. Plains Coreopsis
Coreopsis tinctoria
19. Azure Blue Sage
Salvia azurea
20. Buffalograss
Bouteloua dactyloides
21. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
22. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
23. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
24. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
25. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
26. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
27. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
28. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
29. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
30. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
31. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
32. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
33. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
34. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
35. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
36. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
37. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
38. Maximilian Sunflower
Helianthus maximiliani
39. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
40. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
41. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
42. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
43. Large Beardtongue
Penstemon grandiflorus
44. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
45. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
46. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
47. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
48. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
49. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
50. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
51. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
52. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
53. Longbract Spiderwort
Tradescantia bracteata
54. American Beakgrain
Diarrhena obovata
55. Prairie Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium campestre
56. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
57. Hairy Grama
Bouteloua hirsuta
58. Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolia
59. Hoary Puccoon
Lithospermum canescens
60. Rock Polypody
Polypodium virginianum
61. Narrowleaf Stoneseed
Lithospermum incisum
62. White Bear Sedge
Carex albursina
63. Downy Phlox
Phlox pilosa
64. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
65. Crested Sedge
Carex cristatella
66. Tall Cinquefoil
Drymocallis arguta
67. Leavenworth’s Sedge
Carex leavenworthii
68. Bur-Reed Sedge
Carex sparganioides
69. Prairie Fleabane
Erigeron strigosus
70. Quill Sedge
Carex tenera
71. Western Oak Sedge
Carex inops
72. Longstalk Sedge
Carex pedunculata
73. Shortbeak Sedge
Carex brevior
74. Greater Straw Sedge
Carex normalis
75. Common Yellow Woodsorrel
Oxalis stricta
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