This list shows 170 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. Orange Coneflower
Rudbeckia fulgida
2. Creeping Phlox
Phlox subulata
3. Little Bluestem
Schizachyrium scoparium
4. Butterfly Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa
5. Whorled Tickseed
Coreopsis verticillata
6. Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
7. Northern Sea Oats
Chasmanthium latifolium
8. Hairawn Muhly
Muhlenbergia capillaris
9. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
10. Large-Flowered Tickseed
Coreopsis grandiflora
11. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
12. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
13. Trumpet Honeysuckle
Lonicera sempervirens
14. Heartleaf Foamflower
Tiarella cordifolia
15. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
16. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
17. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
18. Hairy Alumroot
Heuchera villosa
19. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
20. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
21. American Alumroot
Heuchera americana
22. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
23. White Wood Aster
Eurybia divaricata
24. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
25. Clustered Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum muticum
26. Creeping Phlox
Phlox stolonifera
27. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
28. Dwarf Crested Iris
Iris cristata
29. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
30. Marginal Wood Fern
Dryopteris marginalis
31. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
32. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
33. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
34. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
35. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
36. Hairy Beardtongue
Penstemon hirsutus
37. Green And Gold
Chrysogonum virginianum
38. Wild Sweetwilliam
Phlox maculata
39. Allegheny Spurge
Pachysandra procumbens
40. Orange Coneflower
Rudbeckia fulgida var. fulgida
41. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
42. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
43. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
44. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
45. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
46. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
47. Eastern Teaberry
Gaultheria procumbens
48. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
49. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
50. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
51. Maypop
Passiflora incarnata
52. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
53. Highland Doghobble
Leucothoe fontanesiana
54. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
55. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
56. Narrowleaf Evening Primrose
Oenothera fruticosa
57. Narrowleaf Evening Primrose
Oenothera fruticosa
58. Eastern Smooth Beardtongue
Penstemon laevigatus
59. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
60. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
61. Celandine Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum
62. Southern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla sessilifolia
63. Woodland Stonecrop
Sedum ternatum
64. Lobed Tickseed
Coreopsis auriculata
65. Lyreleaf Sage
Salvia lyrata
66. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
67. Sweet Fern
Comptonia peregrina
68. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
69. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
70. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
71. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
72. Eastern Hay-Scented Fern
Dennstaedtia punctilobula
73. Plantainleaf Sedge
Carex plantaginea
74. Horseflyweed
Baptisia tinctoria
75. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
76. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
77. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
78. Cedarglade St. Johnswort
Hypericum frondosum
79. Hoary Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum incanum
80. Star Tickseed
Coreopsis pubescens
81. Roundleaf Ragwort
Packera obovata
82. Hyssopleaf Thoroughwort
Eupatorium hyssopifolium
83. Maryland Goldenaster
Chrysopsis mariana
84. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
85. Greater Tickseed
Coreopsis major
86. Eastern Bluestar
Amsonia tabernaemontana var. salicifolia
87. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
88. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
89. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
90. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
91. Purple-Flowering Raspberry
Rubus odoratus
92. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
93. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
94. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
95. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
96. Yellowroot
Xanthorhiza simplicissima
97. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
98. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
99. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
100. Low Serviceberry
Amelanchier spicata
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