This list shows 77 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. Butterfly Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa
3. Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
4. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
5. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
6. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
7. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
8. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
9. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
10. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
11. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
12. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
13. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
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. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
19. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
20. Plains Coreopsis
Coreopsis tinctoria
21. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
22. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
23. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
24. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
25. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
26. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
27. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
28. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
29. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
30. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
31. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
32. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
33. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
34. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
35. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
36. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
37. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
38. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
39. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
40. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
41. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
42. Large Beardtongue
Penstemon grandiflorus
43. Autumn Onion
Allium stellatum
44. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
45. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
46. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
47. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
48. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
49. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
50. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
51. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
52. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
53. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
54. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
55. Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Lysimachia lanceolata
56. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
57. Longbract Spiderwort
Tradescantia bracteata
58. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
59. Wild Sarsaparilla
Aralia nudicaulis
60. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
61. Woodbine
Parthenocissus vitacea
62. Early Blue Violet
Viola palmata
63. Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolia
64. Hoary Puccoon
Lithospermum canescens
65. White Bear Sedge
Carex albursina
66. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
67. Pointed Broom Sedge
Carex scoparia
68. Crested Sedge
Carex cristatella
69. Tall Cinquefoil
Drymocallis arguta
70. Leavenworth’s Sedge
Carex leavenworthii
71. Whitemouth Dayflower
Commelina erecta
72. Northern Dewberry
Rubus flagellaris
73. Bur-Reed Sedge
Carex sparganioides
74. Western Oak Sedge
Carex inops
75. Shortbeak Sedge
Carex brevior
76. Greater Straw Sedge
Carex normalis
77. Common Yellow Woodsorrel
Oxalis stricta
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