This list shows 172 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. 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. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
10. Shrubby Cinquefoil
Dasiphora fruticosa
11. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
12. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
13. Kinnikinnick
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
14. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
15. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
16. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
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. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
25. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
26. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
27. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
28. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
29. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
30. Hairy Beardtongue
Penstemon hirsutus
31. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
32. Wild Sweetwilliam
Phlox maculata
33. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
34. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
35. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
36. Tufted Hairgrass
Deschampsia cespitosa
37. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
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. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
53. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
54. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
55. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
56. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
57. Narrowleaf Evening Primrose
Oenothera fruticosa
58. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
59. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
60. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
61. Celandine Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum
62. Kalm’s St. John’s Wort
Hypericum kalmianum
63. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
64. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
65. Sweet Fern
Comptonia peregrina
66. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
67. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
68. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
69. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
70. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
71. Creeping Sedge
Carex laxiculmis
72. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
73. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
74. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
75. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
76. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
77. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
78. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
79. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
80. Large Beardtongue
Penstemon grandiflorus
81. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
82. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
83. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
84. Sand Cherry
Prunus pumila
85. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
86. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
87. Purple-Flowering Raspberry
Rubus odoratus
88. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
89. Cleft Phlox
Phlox bifida
90. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
91. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
92. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
93. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
94. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
95. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
96. Hairy Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum pilosum
97. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
98. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
99. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
100. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
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