This list shows 107 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. Anise Hyssop
Agastache foeniculum
4. Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
5. Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
6. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
7. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
8. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
9. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
10. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
11. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
12. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
13. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
14. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
15. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
16. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
17. Bunchberry Dogwood
Cornus canadensis
18. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
19. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
20. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
21. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
22. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
23. Wild Sweetwilliam
Phlox maculata
24. Rocky Mountain Blazing Star
Liatris ligulistylis
25. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
26. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
27. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
28. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
29. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
30. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
31. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
32. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
33. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
34. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
35. Old Man’s Whiskers
Geum triflorum
36. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
37. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
38. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
39. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
40. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
41. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
42. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
43. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
44. Maximilian Sunflower
Helianthus maximiliani
45. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
46. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
47. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
48. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
49. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
50. Large Beardtongue
Penstemon grandiflorus
51. Autumn Onion
Allium stellatum
52. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
53. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
54. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
55. Sand Cherry
Prunus pumila
56. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
57. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
58. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
59. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
60. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
61. Dotted Blazing Star
Liatris punctata
62. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
63. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
64. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
65. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
66. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
67. Western Silver Aster
Symphyotrichum sericeum
68. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
69. Common Juniper
Juniperus communis var. depressa
70. Marsh Blue Violet
Viola cucullata
71. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
72. Western Snowberry
Symphoricarpos occidentalis
73. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
74. Longbract Spiderwort
Tradescantia bracteata
75. Canadian White Violet
Viola canadensis
76. Wild Sarsaparilla
Aralia nudicaulis
77. Canada Mayflower
Maianthemum canadense
78. Prairie Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium campestre
79. Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium montanum
80. Lance Selfheal
Prunella vulgaris var. lanceolata
81. Downy Rattlesnake Plantain
Goodyera pubescens
82. Greater Bladder Sedge
Carex intumescens
83. Parlin’s Pussytoes
Antennaria parlinii
84. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
85. Hairy Solomon’s Seal
Polygonatum pubescens
86. Violet Wood-Sorrel
Oxalis violacea
87. Woodbine
Parthenocissus vitacea
88. Jersey Tea
Ceanothus herbaceus
89. Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolia
90. Hoary Puccoon
Lithospermum canescens
91. Rock Polypody
Polypodium virginianum
92. Narrowleaf Stoneseed
Lithospermum incisum
93. White Bear Sedge
Carex albursina
94. Downy Phlox
Phlox pilosa
95. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
96. Pointed Broom Sedge
Carex scoparia
97. Crested Sedge
Carex cristatella
98. Tall Cinquefoil
Drymocallis arguta
99. Prairie Ragwort
Packera plattensis
100. Bur-Reed Sedge
Carex sparganioides
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