This list shows 151 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. Chives
Allium schoenoprasum
11. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
12. Shrubby Cinquefoil
Dasiphora fruticosa
13. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
14. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
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. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
22. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
23. Bunchberry Dogwood
Cornus canadensis
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. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
33. Rocky Mountain Blazing Star
Liatris ligulistylis
34. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
35. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
36. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
37. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
38. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
39. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
40. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
41. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
42. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
43. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
44. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
45. Bluebell Bellflower
Campanula rotundifolia
46. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
47. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
48. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
49. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
50. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
51. Old Man’s Whiskers
Geum triflorum
52. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
53. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
54. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
55. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
56. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
57. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
58. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
59. Kalm’s St. John’s Wort
Hypericum kalmianum
60. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
61. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
62. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
63. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
64. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
65. Plantainleaf Sedge
Carex plantaginea
66. Creeping Sedge
Carex laxiculmis
67. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
68. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
69. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
70. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
71. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
72. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
73. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
74. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
75. Large Beardtongue
Penstemon grandiflorus
76. Autumn Onion
Allium stellatum
77. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
78. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
79. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
80. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
81. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
82. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
83. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
84. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
85. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
86. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
87. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
88. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
89. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
90. Low Serviceberry
Amelanchier spicata
91. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
92. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
93. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
94. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
95. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
96. Western Silver Aster
Symphyotrichum sericeum
97. Prairie Sundrops
Oenothera pilosella
98. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
99. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
100. Common Juniper
Juniperus communis var. depressa
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