This list shows 150 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. 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. Shrubby Cinquefoil
Dasiphora fruticosa
11. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
12. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
13. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
14. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
15. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
16. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
17. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
18. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
19. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
20. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
21. Bunchberry Dogwood
Cornus canadensis
22. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
23. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
24. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
25. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
26. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
27. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
28. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
29. Hairy Beardtongue
Penstemon hirsutus
30. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
31. Wild Sweetwilliam
Phlox maculata
32. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
33. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
34. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
35. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
36. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
37. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
38. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
39. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
40. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
41. Bluebell Bellflower
Campanula rotundifolia
42. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
43. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
44. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
45. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
46. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
47. Old Man’s Whiskers
Geum triflorum
48. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
49. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
50. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
51. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
52. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
53. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
54. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
55. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
56. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
57. Sweet Fern
Comptonia peregrina
58. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
59. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
60. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
61. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
62. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
63. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
64. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
65. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
66. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
67. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
68. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
69. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
70. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
71. Large Beardtongue
Penstemon grandiflorus
72. Autumn Onion
Allium stellatum
73. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
74. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
75. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
76. Sand Cherry
Prunus pumila
77. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
78. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
79. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
80. Cleft Phlox
Phlox bifida
81. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
82. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
83. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
84. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
85. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
86. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
87. Low Serviceberry
Amelanchier spicata
88. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
89. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
90. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
91. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
92. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
93. Western Silver Aster
Symphyotrichum sericeum
94. Prairie Sundrops
Oenothera pilosella
95. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
96. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
97. Common Juniper
Juniperus communis var. depressa
98. Marsh Blue Violet
Viola cucullata
99. Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Lysimachia lanceolata
100. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
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