This list shows 148 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. Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
7. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
8. Large-Flowered Tickseed
Coreopsis grandiflora
9. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
10. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
11. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
12. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
13. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
14. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
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. Purple Poppymallow
Callirhoe involucrata
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. Indian Blanket
Gaillardia pulchella
32. Plains Coreopsis
Coreopsis tinctoria
33. Azure Blue Sage
Salvia azurea
34. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
35. Rose Mock Vervain
Glandularia canadensis
36. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
37. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
38. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
39. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
40. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
41. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
42. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
43. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
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. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
50. Maypop
Passiflora incarnata
51. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
52. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
53. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
54. Bigfruit Evening Primrose
Oenothera macrocarpa
55. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
56. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
57. Celandine Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum
58. Woodland Stonecrop
Sedum ternatum
59. Eastern Beebalm
Monarda bradburiana
60. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
61. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
62. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
63. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
64. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
65. Bigfruit Evening Primrose
Oenothera macrocarpa subsp. macrocarpa
66. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
67. Maximilian Sunflower
Helianthus maximiliani
68. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
69. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
70. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
71. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
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. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
79. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
80. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
81. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
82. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
83. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
84. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
85. Hairy Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum pilosum
86. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
87. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
88. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
89. Texas Sedge
Carex texensis
90. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
91. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
92. Scaly Blazing Star
Liatris squarrosa
93. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
94. Missouri Coneflower
Rudbeckia missouriensis
95. Largeflower Fameflower
Phemeranthus calycinus
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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