This list shows 69 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. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
12. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
13. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
14. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
15. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
16. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
17. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
18. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
19. Plains Coreopsis
Coreopsis tinctoria
20. Azure Blue Sage
Salvia azurea
21. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
22. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
23. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
24. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
25. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
26. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
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. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
35. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
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. Prairie Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium campestre
55. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
56. Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolia
57. Hoary Puccoon
Lithospermum canescens
58. White Bear Sedge
Carex albursina
59. Downy Phlox
Phlox pilosa
60. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
61. Crested Sedge
Carex cristatella
62. Tall Cinquefoil
Drymocallis arguta
63. Leavenworth’s Sedge
Carex leavenworthii
64. Bur-Reed Sedge
Carex sparganioides
65. Bush’s Sedge
Carex bushii
66. Quill Sedge
Carex tenera
67. Western Oak Sedge
Carex inops
68. Shortbeak Sedge
Carex brevior
69. Greater Straw Sedge
Carex normalis
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