This list shows 157 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. Northern Sea Oats
Chasmanthium latifolium
5. Hairawn Muhly
Muhlenbergia capillaris
6. Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
7. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
8. Large-Flowered Tickseed
Coreopsis grandiflora
9. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
10. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
11. Trumpet Honeysuckle
Lonicera sempervirens
12. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
13. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
14. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
15. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
16. American Alumroot
Heuchera americana
17. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
18. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
19. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
20. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
21. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
22. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
23. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
24. Marginal Wood Fern
Dryopteris marginalis
25. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
26. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
27. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
28. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
29. Pinkladies
Oenothera speciosa
30. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
31. Indian Blanket
Gaillardia pulchella
32. Plains Coreopsis
Coreopsis tinctoria
33. Azure Blue Sage
Salvia azurea
34. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
35. Rose Mock Vervain
Glandularia canadensis
36. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
37. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
38. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
39. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
40. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
41. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
42. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
43. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
44. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
45. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
46. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
47. Maypop
Passiflora incarnata
48. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
49. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
50. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
51. Narrowleaf Evening Primrose
Oenothera fruticosa
52. Narrowleaf Evening Primrose
Oenothera fruticosa
53. Bigfruit Evening Primrose
Oenothera macrocarpa
54. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
55. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
56. Celandine Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum
57. Woodland Stonecrop
Sedum ternatum
58. Eastern Beebalm
Monarda bradburiana
59. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
60. Lyreleaf Sage
Salvia lyrata
61. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
62. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
63. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
64. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
65. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
66. Maximilian Sunflower
Helianthus maximiliani
67. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
68. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
69. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
70. Southern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum capillus-veneris
71. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
72. Lemon Beebalm
Monarda citriodora
73. Star Tickseed
Coreopsis pubescens
74. Roundleaf Ragwort
Packera obovata
75. Ozark Bluestar
Amsonia illustris
76. Autumn Onion
Allium stellatum
77. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
78. Eastern Bluestar
Amsonia tabernaemontana var. salicifolia
79. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
80. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
81. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
82. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
83. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
84. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
85. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
86. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
87. Hairy Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum pilosum
88. Dotted Blazing Star
Liatris punctata
89. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
90. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
91. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
92. Texas Sedge
Carex texensis
93. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
94. Western Silver Aster
Symphyotrichum sericeum
95. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
96. Scaly Blazing Star
Liatris squarrosa
97. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
98. Missouri Coneflower
Rudbeckia missouriensis
99. Blue Wild Indigo
Baptisia minor
100. Largeflower Fameflower
Phemeranthus calycinus
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