This list shows 114 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. Northern Sea Oats
Chasmanthium latifolium
5. Hairawn Muhly
Muhlenbergia capillaris
6. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
7. Large-Flowered Tickseed
Coreopsis grandiflora
8. Trumpet Honeysuckle
Lonicera sempervirens
9. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
10. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
11. Mealycup Sage
Salvia farinacea
12. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
13. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
14. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
15. Purple Poppymallow
Callirhoe involucrata
16. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
17. Pinkladies
Oenothera speciosa
18. Indian Blanket
Gaillardia pulchella
19. Plains Coreopsis
Coreopsis tinctoria
20. Azure Blue Sage
Salvia azurea
21. Graceful Spurge
Euphorbia hypericifolia
22. Yellow Wild Indigo
Baptisia sphaerocarpa
23. Buffalograss
Bouteloua dactyloides
24. Lindheimer’s Beeblossom
Oenothera lindheimeri
25. Texas Bluebonnet
Lupinus texensis
26. Rose Mock Vervain
Glandularia canadensis
27. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
28. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
29. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
30. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
31. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
32. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
33. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
34. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
35. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
36. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
37. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
38. Bigfruit Evening Primrose
Oenothera macrocarpa
39. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
40. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
41. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
42. Lyreleaf Sage
Salvia lyrata
43. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
44. Bigfruit Evening Primrose
Oenothera macrocarpa subsp. macrocarpa
45. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
46. Maximilian Sunflower
Helianthus maximiliani
47. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
48. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
49. Berlandier’s Sundrops
Oenothera berlandieri
50. Blackfoot Daisy
Melampodium leucanthum
51. Cherokee Sedge
Carex cherokeensis
52. Lemon Beebalm
Monarda citriodora
53. Roundleaf Ragwort
Packera obovata
54. Sunshine Mimosa
Mimosa strigillosa
55. Fringed Bluestar
Amsonia ciliata
56. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
57. Eastern Bluestar
Amsonia tabernaemontana var. salicifolia
58. Dakota Mock Vervain
Glandularia bipinnatifida
59. Prairie Lily
Zephyranthes drummondii
60. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
61. Lanceleaf Blanketflower
Gaillardia aestivalis
62. Dotted Blazing Star
Liatris punctata
63. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
64. Texas Sedge
Carex texensis
65. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
66. Scaly Blazing Star
Liatris squarrosa
67. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
68. Turk’s Cap
Malvaviscus arboreus var. drummondii
69. Blue Wild Indigo
Baptisia minor
70. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
71. Late Purple Aster
Symphyotrichum patens
72. Four-Nerve Daisy
Tetraneuris scaposa
73. Plains Pricklypear
Opuntia macrorhiza
74. Smooth Wild Petunia
Ruellia strepens
75. Parlin’s Pussytoes
Antennaria parlinii
76. St. Andrew’s Cross
Hypericum hypericoides
77. Texas Blazing Star
Liatris mucronata
78. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
79. Violet Wood-Sorrel
Oxalis violacea
80. Hairy Grama
Bouteloua hirsuta
81. Slender Lespedeza
Lespedeza virginica
82. Jersey Tea
Ceanothus herbaceus
83. Hairy Lespedeza
Lespedeza hirta
84. Straggler Daisy
Calyptocarpus vialis
85. Narrowleaf Stoneseed
Lithospermum incisum
86. Sidebeak Pencilflower
Stylosanthes biflora
87. Shaggy Dwarf Morning-Glory
Evolvulus nuttallianus
88. Snake Herb
Dyschoriste linearis
89. Violet Wild Petunia
Ruellia nudiflora
90. Light Poppymallow
Callirhoe alcaeoides
91. Dotted Blazing Star
Liatris punctata var. mucronata
92. Berlandier’s Yellow Flax
Linum berlandieri
93. Palmleaf Poppymallow
Callirhoe pedata
94. Fleur Petard
Ruellia ciliatiflora
95. Tenpetal Thimbleweed
Anemone berlandieri
96. Downy Phlox
Phlox pilosa
97. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
98. Engelmann’s Pricklypear
Opuntia engelmannii
99. Leavenworth’s Sedge
Carex leavenworthii
100. Prairie Ragwort
Packera plattensis
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