This list shows 115 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. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
6. Large-Flowered Tickseed
Coreopsis grandiflora
7. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
8. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
9. Trumpet Honeysuckle
Lonicera sempervirens
10. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
11. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
12. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
13. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
14. American Alumroot
Heuchera americana
15. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
16. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
17. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
18. Clustered Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum muticum
19. Dwarf Crested Iris
Iris cristata
20. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
21. Marginal Wood Fern
Dryopteris marginalis
22. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
23. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
24. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
25. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
26. Pinkladies
Oenothera speciosa
27. Plains Coreopsis
Coreopsis tinctoria
28. Azure Blue Sage
Salvia azurea
29. Yellow Wild Indigo
Baptisia sphaerocarpa
30. Rose Mock Vervain
Glandularia canadensis
31. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
32. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
33. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
34. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
35. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
36. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
37. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
38. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
39. Maypop
Passiflora incarnata
40. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
41. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
42. Narrowleaf Evening Primrose
Oenothera fruticosa
43. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
44. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
45. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
46. Eastern Beebalm
Monarda bradburiana
47. Lyreleaf Sage
Salvia lyrata
48. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
49. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
50. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
51. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
52. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
53. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
54. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
55. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
56. Cherokee Sedge
Carex cherokeensis
57. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
58. Star Tickseed
Coreopsis pubescens
59. Roundleaf Ragwort
Packera obovata
60. Blue Wood Sedge
Carex flaccosperma
61. Fringed Bluestar
Amsonia ciliata
62. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
63. Eastern Bluestar
Amsonia tabernaemontana var. salicifolia
64. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
65. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
66. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
67. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
68. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
69. Texas Sedge
Carex texensis
70. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
71. Prairie Sundrops
Oenothera pilosella
72. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
73. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
74. Carolina Wild Petunia
Ruellia caroliniensis
75. Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Lysimachia lanceolata
76. Narrowleaf Silkgrass
Pityopsis graminifolia
77. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
78. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
79. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
80. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
81. Late Purple Aster
Symphyotrichum patens
82. Azure Bluet
Houstonia caerulea
83. Prairie Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium campestre
84. Blue Sedge
Carex glaucodea
85. Plains Pricklypear
Opuntia macrorhiza
86. Greater Bladder Sedge
Carex intumescens
87. Smooth Wild Petunia
Ruellia strepens
88. American Dittany
Cunila origanoides
89. St. Andrew’s Cross
Hypericum hypericoides
90. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
91. Violet Wood-Sorrel
Oxalis violacea
92. Narrowleaf Vervain
Verbena simplex
93. Blue Ridge Blueberry
Vaccinium pallidum
94. Slender Lespedeza
Lespedeza virginica
95. Early Blue Violet
Viola palmata
96. Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolia
97. Hairy Lespedeza
Lespedeza hirta
98. Sidebeak Pencilflower
Stylosanthes biflora
99. Long-Leaved Bluet
Houstonia longifolia
100. Man Of The Earth
Ipomoea pandurata
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