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. 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. 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. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
19. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
20. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
21. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
22. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
23. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
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. Hairy Beardtongue
Penstemon hirsutus
33. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
34. Wild Sweetwilliam
Phlox maculata
35. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
36. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
37. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
38. Tufted Hairgrass
Deschampsia cespitosa
39. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
40. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
41. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
42. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
43. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
44. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
45. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
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. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
58. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
59. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
60. Celandine Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum
61. Kalm’s St. John’s Wort
Hypericum kalmianum
62. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
63. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
64. Sweet Fern
Comptonia peregrina
65. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
66. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
67. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
68. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
69. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
70. Plantainleaf Sedge
Carex plantaginea
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. Autumn Onion
Allium stellatum
82. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
83. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
84. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
85. Sand Cherry
Prunus pumila
86. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
87. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
88. Purple-Flowering Raspberry
Rubus odoratus
89. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
90. Cleft Phlox
Phlox bifida
91. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
92. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
93. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
94. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
95. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
96. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
97. Hairy Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum pilosum
98. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
99. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
100. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
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