This list shows 76 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. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
5. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
6. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
7. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
8. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
9. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
10. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
11. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
12. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
13. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
14. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
15. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
16. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
17. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
18. Plains Coreopsis
Coreopsis tinctoria
19. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
20. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
21. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
22. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
23. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
24. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
25. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
26. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
27. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
28. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
29. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
30. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
31. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
32. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
33. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
34. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
35. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
36. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
37. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
38. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
39. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
40. Large Beardtongue
Penstemon grandiflorus
41. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
42. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
43. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
44. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
45. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
46. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
47. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
48. Hairy Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum pilosum
49. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
50. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
51. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
52. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
53. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
54. Longbract Spiderwort
Tradescantia bracteata
55. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
56. Prairie Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium campestre
57. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
58. Early Blue Violet
Viola palmata
59. Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolia
60. Hoary Puccoon
Lithospermum canescens
61. White Bear Sedge
Carex albursina
62. Wood Muhly
Muhlenbergia sylvatica
63. Downy Phlox
Phlox pilosa
64. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
65. Pointed Broom Sedge
Carex scoparia
66. Crested Sedge
Carex cristatella
67. Tall Cinquefoil
Drymocallis arguta
68. Leavenworth’s Sedge
Carex leavenworthii
69. Whitemouth Dayflower
Commelina erecta
70. Bur-Reed Sedge
Carex sparganioides
71. Bush’s Sedge
Carex bushii
72. Prairie Fleabane
Erigeron strigosus
73. Western Oak Sedge
Carex inops
74. Shortbeak Sedge
Carex brevior
75. Greater Straw Sedge
Carex normalis
76. Common Yellow Woodsorrel
Oxalis stricta
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