This list shows 85 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. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
10. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
11. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
12. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
13. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
14. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
15. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
16. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
17. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
18. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
19. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
20. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
21. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
22. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
23. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
24. Azure Blue Sage
Salvia azurea
25. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
26. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
27. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
28. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
29. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
30. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
31. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
32. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
33. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
34. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
35. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
36. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
37. Woodland Stonecrop
Sedum ternatum
38. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
39. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
40. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
41. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
42. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
43. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
44. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
45. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
46. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
47. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
48. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
49. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
50. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
51. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
52. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
53. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
54. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
55. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
56. Prairie Sundrops
Oenothera pilosella
57. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
58. Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Lysimachia lanceolata
59. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
60. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
61. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
62. Whorled Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum verticillatum
63. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
64. Blue Sedge
Carex glaucodea
65. Lance Selfheal
Prunella vulgaris var. lanceolata
66. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
67. Violet Wood-Sorrel
Oxalis violacea
68. Slender Lespedeza
Lespedeza virginica
69. Early Blue Violet
Viola palmata
70. Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolia
71. Hoary Puccoon
Lithospermum canescens
72. White Bear Sedge
Carex albursina
73. Northern Bog Violet
Viola pratincola
74. Downy Phlox
Phlox pilosa
75. Downy Wood Mint
Blephilia ciliata
76. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
77. Crested Sedge
Carex cristatella
78. Tall Cinquefoil
Drymocallis arguta
79. Leavenworth’s Sedge
Carex leavenworthii
80. Northern Dewberry
Rubus flagellaris
81. Prairie Fleabane
Erigeron strigosus
82. Shortbeak Sedge
Carex brevior
83. Greater Straw Sedge
Carex normalis
84. Common Yellow Woodsorrel
Oxalis stricta
85. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
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