This list shows 130 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. Creeping Phlox
Phlox subulata
2. Little Bluestem
Schizachyrium scoparium
3. Butterfly Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa
4. Whorled Tickseed
Coreopsis verticillata
5. Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
6. Northern Sea Oats
Chasmanthium latifolium
7. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
8. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
9. Trumpet Honeysuckle
Lonicera sempervirens
10. Heartleaf Foamflower
Tiarella cordifolia
11. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
12. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
13. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
14. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
15. Hairy Alumroot
Heuchera villosa
16. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
17. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
18. American Alumroot
Heuchera americana
19. White Wood Aster
Eurybia divaricata
20. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
21. Clustered Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum muticum
22. Creeping Phlox
Phlox stolonifera
23. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
24. Dwarf Crested Iris
Iris cristata
25. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
26. Marginal Wood Fern
Dryopteris marginalis
27. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
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. Green And Gold
Chrysogonum virginianum
33. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
34. Wild Sweetwilliam
Phlox maculata
35. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
36. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
37. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
38. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
39. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
40. Eastern Teaberry
Gaultheria procumbens
41. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
42. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
43. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
44. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
45. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
46. Narrowleaf Evening Primrose
Oenothera fruticosa
47. Narrowleaf Evening Primrose
Oenothera fruticosa
48. Eastern Smooth Beardtongue
Penstemon laevigatus
49. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
50. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
51. Woodland Stonecrop
Sedum ternatum
52. Lyreleaf Sage
Salvia lyrata
53. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
54. Sweet Fern
Comptonia peregrina
55. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
56. Appalachian Sedge
Carex appalachica
57. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
58. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
59. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
60. Eastern Hay-Scented Fern
Dennstaedtia punctilobula
61. Plantainleaf Sedge
Carex plantaginea
62. Horseflyweed
Baptisia tinctoria
63. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
64. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
65. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
66. Hoary Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum incanum
67. Thickleaf Phlox
Phlox carolina
68. Star Tickseed
Coreopsis pubescens
69. Roundleaf Ragwort
Packera obovata
70. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
71. Greater Tickseed
Coreopsis major
72. Meehan’s Mint
Meehania cordata
73. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
74. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
75. Purple-Flowering Raspberry
Rubus odoratus
76. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
77. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
78. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
79. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
80. Yellowroot
Xanthorhiza simplicissima
81. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
82. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
83. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
84. Sticky Catchfly
Silene caroliniana
85. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
86. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
87. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
88. Marsh Blue Violet
Viola cucullata
89. Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Lysimachia lanceolata
90. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
91. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
92. Canadian White Violet
Viola canadensis
93. Canada Mayflower
Maianthemum canadense
94. Helmet Flower
Scutellaria integrifolia
95. Broadleaf Sedge
Carex platyphylla
96. Azure Bluet
Houstonia caerulea
97. Downy Rattlesnake Plantain
Goodyera pubescens
98. Greater Bladder Sedge
Carex intumescens
99. American Dittany
Cunila origanoides
100. Parlin’s Pussytoes
Antennaria parlinii
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