This list shows 142 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. Northern Sea Oats
Chasmanthium latifolium
6. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
7. Large-Flowered Tickseed
Coreopsis grandiflora
8. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
9. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
10. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
11. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
12. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
13. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
14. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
15. American Alumroot
Heuchera americana
16. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
17. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
18. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
19. Clustered Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum muticum
20. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
21. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
22. Marginal Wood Fern
Dryopteris marginalis
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. Plains Coreopsis
Coreopsis tinctoria
30. Azure Blue Sage
Salvia azurea
31. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
32. Orange Coneflower
Rudbeckia fulgida var. fulgida
33. Rose Mock Vervain
Glandularia canadensis
34. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
35. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
36. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
37. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
38. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
39. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
40. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
41. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
42. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
43. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
44. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
45. Maypop
Passiflora incarnata
46. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
47. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
48. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
49. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
50. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
51. Celandine Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum
52. Woodland Stonecrop
Sedum ternatum
53. Eastern Beebalm
Monarda bradburiana
54. Lyreleaf Sage
Salvia lyrata
55. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
56. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
57. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
58. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
59. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
60. Creeping Sedge
Carex laxiculmis
61. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
62. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
63. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
64. Star Tickseed
Coreopsis pubescens
65. Ozark Bluestar
Amsonia illustris
66. Blue Wood Sedge
Carex flaccosperma
67. Hyssopleaf Thoroughwort
Eupatorium hyssopifolium
68. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
69. Eastern Bluestar
Amsonia tabernaemontana var. salicifolia
70. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
71. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
72. Cleft Phlox
Phlox bifida
73. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
74. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
75. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
76. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
77. Hairy Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum pilosum
78. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
79. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
80. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
81. Texas Sedge
Carex texensis
82. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
83. Prairie Sundrops
Oenothera pilosella
84. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
85. Scaly Blazing Star
Liatris squarrosa
86. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
87. Marsh Blue Violet
Viola cucullata
88. Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Lysimachia lanceolata
89. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
90. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
91. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
92. Longbract Spiderwort
Tradescantia bracteata
93. American Beakgrain
Diarrhena obovata
94. Whorled Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum verticillatum
95. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
96. Late Purple Aster
Symphyotrichum patens
97. Prairie Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium campestre
98. Blue Sedge
Carex glaucodea
99. Plains Pricklypear
Opuntia macrorhiza
100. Lance Selfheal
Prunella vulgaris var. lanceolata
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