This list shows 84 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. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
6. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
7. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
8. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
9. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
10. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
11. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
12. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
13. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
14. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
15. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
16. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
17. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
18. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
19. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
20. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
21. Plains Coreopsis
Coreopsis tinctoria
22. Azure Blue Sage
Salvia azurea
23. Wild Sweetwilliam
Phlox maculata
24. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
25. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
26. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
27. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
28. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
29. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
30. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
31. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
32. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
33. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
34. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
35. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
36. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
37. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
38. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
39. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
40. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
41. Maximilian Sunflower
Helianthus maximiliani
42. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
43. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
44. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
45. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
46. Large Beardtongue
Penstemon grandiflorus
47. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
48. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
49. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
50. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
51. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
52. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
53. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
54. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
55. Western Silver Aster
Symphyotrichum sericeum
56. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
57. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
58. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
59. Longbract Spiderwort
Tradescantia bracteata
60. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
61. Wild Sarsaparilla
Aralia nudicaulis
62. Prairie Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium campestre
63. Downy Rattlesnake Plantain
Goodyera pubescens
64. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
65. Woodbine
Parthenocissus vitacea
66. Early Blue Violet
Viola palmata
67. Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolia
68. Hoary Puccoon
Lithospermum canescens
69. Narrowleaf Stoneseed
Lithospermum incisum
70. White Bear Sedge
Carex albursina
71. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
72. Downy Phlox
Phlox pilosa
73. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
74. Pointed Broom Sedge
Carex scoparia
75. Crested Sedge
Carex cristatella
76. Tall Cinquefoil
Drymocallis arguta
77. Leavenworth’s Sedge
Carex leavenworthii
78. Whitemouth Dayflower
Commelina erecta
79. Bur-Reed Sedge
Carex sparganioides
80. Prairie Fleabane
Erigeron strigosus
81. Western Oak Sedge
Carex inops
82. Shortbeak Sedge
Carex brevior
83. Greater Straw Sedge
Carex normalis
84. Common Yellow Woodsorrel
Oxalis stricta
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