This list shows 175 groundcover plants that are native to your location, and are carried in nurseries. Plants are ordered by their popularity in gardening applications.
Click on any thumbnail to view more information about the plant - including an interactive native range map, climate suitability analysis and irrigation requirements for your location, nursery coverage, photos, plant description and cultivation tips. Click on any "add to plantlist" button to add that plant to your custom plantlist. Less
1. Orange Coneflower
Rudbeckia fulgida
2. Little Bluestem
Schizachyrium scoparium
3. Creeping Juniper
Juniperus horizontalis
4. Butterfly Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa
5. Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
6. Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
7. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
8. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
9. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
10. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
11. Shrubby Cinquefoil
Dasiphora fruticosa
12. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
13. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
14. Kinnikinnick
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
15. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
16. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
17. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
18. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
19. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
20. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
21. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
22. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
23. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
24. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
25. Marginal Wood Fern
Dryopteris marginalis
26. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
27. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
28. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
29. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
30. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
31. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
32. Hairy Beardtongue
Penstemon hirsutus
33. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
34. Wild Sweetwilliam
Phlox maculata
35. Rocky Mountain Blazing Star
Liatris ligulistylis
36. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
37. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
38. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
39. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
40. Tufted Hairgrass
Deschampsia cespitosa
41. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
42. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
43. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
44. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
45. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
46. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
47. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
48. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
49. Bluebell Bellflower
Campanula rotundifolia
50. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
51. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
52. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
53. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
54. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
55. Old Man’s Whiskers
Geum triflorum
56. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
57. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
58. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
59. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
60. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
61. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
62. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
63. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
64. Celandine Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum
65. Kalm’s St. John’s Wort
Hypericum kalmianum
66. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
67. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
68. Sweet Fern
Comptonia peregrina
69. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
70. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
71. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
72. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
73. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
74. Plantainleaf Sedge
Carex plantaginea
75. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
76. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
77. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
78. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
79. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
80. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
81. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
82. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
83. Large Beardtongue
Penstemon grandiflorus
84. Autumn Onion
Allium stellatum
85. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
86. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
87. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
88. Sand Cherry
Prunus pumila
89. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
90. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
91. Purple-Flowering Raspberry
Rubus odoratus
92. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
93. Cleft Phlox
Phlox bifida
94. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
95. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
96. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
97. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
98. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
99. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
100. Hairy Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum pilosum
My Garden Plantlist
(0 Plants )