This list shows 159 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. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
10. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
11. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
12. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
13. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
14. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
15. American Alumroot
Heuchera americana
16. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
17. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
18. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
19. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
20. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
21. Dwarf Crested Iris
Iris cristata
22. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
23. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
24. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
25. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
26. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
27. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
28. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
29. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
30. Azure Blue Sage
Salvia azurea
31. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
32. Buffalograss
Bouteloua dactyloides
33. Rose Mock Vervain
Glandularia canadensis
34. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
35. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
36. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
37. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
38. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
39. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
40. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
41. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
42. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
43. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
44. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
45. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
46. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
47. Maypop
Passiflora incarnata
48. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
49. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
50. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
51. Bigfruit Evening Primrose
Oenothera macrocarpa
52. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
53. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
54. Celandine Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum
55. Woodland Stonecrop
Sedum ternatum
56. Eastern Beebalm
Monarda bradburiana
57. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
58. Lyreleaf Sage
Salvia lyrata
59. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
60. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
61. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
62. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
63. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
64. Bigfruit Evening Primrose
Oenothera macrocarpa subsp. macrocarpa
65. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
66. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
67. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
68. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
69. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
70. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
71. Lemon Beebalm
Monarda citriodora
72. Star Tickseed
Coreopsis pubescens
73. Roundleaf Ragwort
Packera obovata
74. Ozark Bluestar
Amsonia illustris
75. Blue Wood Sedge
Carex flaccosperma
76. Autumn Onion
Allium stellatum
77. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
78. Eastern Bluestar
Amsonia tabernaemontana var. salicifolia
79. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
80. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
81. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
82. Cleft Phlox
Phlox bifida
83. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
84. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
85. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
86. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
87. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
88. Hairy Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum pilosum
89. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
90. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
91. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
92. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
93. Texas Sedge
Carex texensis
94. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
95. Prairie Sundrops
Oenothera pilosella
96. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
97. Scaly Blazing Star
Liatris squarrosa
98. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
99. Missouri Coneflower
Rudbeckia missouriensis
100. Blue Wild Indigo
Baptisia minor
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