This list shows 146 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. Creeping Juniper
Juniperus horizontalis
4. Butterfly Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa
5. Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
6. Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
7. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
8. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
9. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
10. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
11. Shrubby Cinquefoil
Dasiphora fruticosa
12. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
13. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
14. Kinnikinnick
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
15. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
16. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
17. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
18. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
19. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
20. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
21. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
22. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
23. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
24. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
25. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
26. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
27. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
28. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
29. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
30. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
31. Hairy Beardtongue
Penstemon hirsutus
32. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
33. Wild Sweetwilliam
Phlox maculata
34. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
35. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
36. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
37. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
38. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
39. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
40. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
41. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
42. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
43. Bluebell Bellflower
Campanula rotundifolia
44. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
45. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
46. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
47. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
48. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
49. Old Man’s Whiskers
Geum triflorum
50. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
51. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
52. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
53. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
54. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
55. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
56. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
57. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
58. Celandine Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum
59. Kalm’s St. John’s Wort
Hypericum kalmianum
60. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
61. Sweet Fern
Comptonia peregrina
62. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
63. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
64. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
65. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
66. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
67. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
68. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
69. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
70. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
71. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
72. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
73. Large Beardtongue
Penstemon grandiflorus
74. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
75. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
76. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
77. Purple-Flowering Raspberry
Rubus odoratus
78. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
79. Cleft Phlox
Phlox bifida
80. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
81. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
82. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
83. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
84. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
85. Hairy Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum pilosum
86. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
87. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
88. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
89. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
90. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
91. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
92. Western Silver Aster
Symphyotrichum sericeum
93. Prairie Sundrops
Oenothera pilosella
94. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
95. Marsh Blue Violet
Viola cucullata
96. Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Lysimachia lanceolata
97. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
98. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
99. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
100. American Beakgrain
Diarrhena obovata
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