This list shows 116 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. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
7. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
8. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
9. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
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. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
17. White Wood Aster
Eurybia divaricata
18. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
19. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
20. Clustered Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum muticum
21. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
22. Dwarf Crested Iris
Iris cristata
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. Hairy Beardtongue
Penstemon hirsutus
31. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
32. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
33. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
34. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
35. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
36. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
37. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
38. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
39. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
40. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
41. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
42. Maypop
Passiflora incarnata
43. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
44. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
45. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
46. Eastern Smooth Beardtongue
Penstemon laevigatus
47. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
48. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
49. Celandine Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum
50. Woodland Stonecrop
Sedum ternatum
51. Lyreleaf Sage
Salvia lyrata
52. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
53. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
54. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
55. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
56. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
57. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
58. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
59. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
60. Hoary Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum incanum
61. Roundleaf Ragwort
Packera obovata
62. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
63. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
64. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
65. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
66. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
67. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
68. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
69. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
70. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
71. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
72. Texas Sedge
Carex texensis
73. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
74. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
75. Scaly Blazing Star
Liatris squarrosa
76. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
77. Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Lysimachia lanceolata
78. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
79. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
80. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
81. Canadian White Violet
Viola canadensis
82. Late Purple Aster
Symphyotrichum patens
83. Blue Sedge
Carex glaucodea
84. Downy Rattlesnake Plantain
Goodyera pubescens
85. Smooth Wild Petunia
Ruellia strepens
86. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
87. Hairy Solomon’s Seal
Polygonatum pubescens
88. Violet Wood-Sorrel
Oxalis violacea
89. Common Woodrush
Luzula multiflora
90. Narrowleaf Vervain
Verbena simplex
91. Early Blue Violet
Viola palmata
92. Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolia
93. Hoary Puccoon
Lithospermum canescens
94. Long-Leaved Bluet
Houstonia longifolia
95. Man Of The Earth
Ipomoea pandurata
96. White Bear Sedge
Carex albursina
97. Running Strawberry Bush
Euonymus obovatus
98. Creek Sedge
Carex amphibola
99. Downy Wood Mint
Blephilia ciliata
100. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
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