This list shows 129 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. Creeping Juniper
Juniperus horizontalis
3. Butterfly Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa
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. Chives
Allium schoenoprasum
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. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
19. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
20. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
21. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
22. Marginal Wood Fern
Dryopteris marginalis
23. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
24. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
25. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
26. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
27. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
28. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
29. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
30. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
31. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
32. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
33. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
34. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
35. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
36. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
37. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
38. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
39. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
40. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
41. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
42. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
43. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
44. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
45. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
46. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
47. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
48. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
49. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
50. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
51. Kalm’s St. John’s Wort
Hypericum kalmianum
52. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
53. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
54. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
55. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
56. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
57. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
58. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
59. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
60. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
61. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
62. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
63. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
64. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
65. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
66. Large Beardtongue
Penstemon grandiflorus
67. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
68. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
69. Sand Cherry
Prunus pumila
70. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
71. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
72. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
73. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
74. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
75. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
76. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
77. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
78. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
79. Low Serviceberry
Amelanchier spicata
80. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
81. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
82. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
83. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
84. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
85. Western Silver Aster
Symphyotrichum sericeum
86. Prairie Sundrops
Oenothera pilosella
87. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
88. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
89. Common Juniper
Juniperus communis var. depressa
90. Marsh Blue Violet
Viola cucullata
91. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
92. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
93. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
94. Wild Sarsaparilla
Aralia nudicaulis
95. Canada Mayflower
Maianthemum canadense
96. Prairie Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium campestre
97. Greater Bladder Sedge
Carex intumescens
98. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
99. Hairy Solomon’s Seal
Polygonatum pubescens
100. Violet Wood-Sorrel
Oxalis violacea
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