This list shows 90 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. Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
7. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
8. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
9. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
10. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
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. American Alumroot
Heuchera americana
17. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
18. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
19. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
20. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
21. Marginal Wood Fern
Dryopteris marginalis
22. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
23. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
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. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
29. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
30. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
31. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
32. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
33. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
34. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
35. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
36. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
37. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
38. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
39. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
40. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
41. Celandine Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum
42. Woodland Stonecrop
Sedum ternatum
43. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
44. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
45. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
46. Plantainleaf Sedge
Carex plantaginea
47. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
48. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
49. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
50. Roundleaf Ragwort
Packera obovata
51. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
52. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
53. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
54. Cleft Phlox
Phlox bifida
55. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
56. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
57. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
58. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
59. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
60. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
61. Prairie Sundrops
Oenothera pilosella
62. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
63. Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Lysimachia lanceolata
64. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
65. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
66. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
67. Blue Sedge
Carex glaucodea
68. Smooth Wild Petunia
Ruellia strepens
69. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
70. Hairy Solomon’s Seal
Polygonatum pubescens
71. Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolia
72. Hoary Puccoon
Lithospermum canescens
73. Man Of The Earth
Ipomoea pandurata
74. White Bear Sedge
Carex albursina
75. Running Strawberry Bush
Euonymus obovatus
76. Creek Sedge
Carex amphibola
77. Downy Wood Mint
Blephilia ciliata
78. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
79. Crested Sedge
Carex cristatella
80. Leavenworth’s Sedge
Carex leavenworthii
81. Whitemouth Dayflower
Commelina erecta
82. Northern Dewberry
Rubus flagellaris
83. Prairie Fleabane
Erigeron strigosus
84. Star Chickweed
Stellaria pubera
85. Pubescent Sedge
Carex hirtifolia
86. Shortbeak Sedge
Carex brevior
87. Greater Straw Sedge
Carex normalis
88. Summer Grape
Vitis aestivalis
89. Common Yellow Woodsorrel
Oxalis stricta
90. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
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