This list shows 137 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. Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
6. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
7. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
8. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
9. Shrubby Cinquefoil
Dasiphora fruticosa
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. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
16. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
17. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
18. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
19. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
20. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
21. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
22. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
23. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
24. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
25. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
26. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
27. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
28. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
29. Wild Sweetwilliam
Phlox maculata
30. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
31. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
32. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
33. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
34. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
35. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
36. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
37. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
38. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
39. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
40. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
41. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
42. Old Man’s Whiskers
Geum triflorum
43. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
44. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
45. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
46. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
47. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
48. Narrowleaf Evening Primrose
Oenothera fruticosa
49. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
50. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
51. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
52. Celandine Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum
53. Kalm’s St. John’s Wort
Hypericum kalmianum
54. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
55. Sweet Fern
Comptonia peregrina
56. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
57. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
58. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
59. Plantainleaf Sedge
Carex plantaginea
60. Creeping Sedge
Carex laxiculmis
61. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
62. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
63. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
64. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
65. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
66. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
67. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
68. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
69. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
70. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
71. Sand Cherry
Prunus pumila
72. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
73. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
74. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
75. Cleft Phlox
Phlox bifida
76. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
77. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
78. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
79. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
80. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
81. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
82. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
83. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
84. Prairie Sundrops
Oenothera pilosella
85. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
86. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
87. Common Juniper
Juniperus communis var. depressa
88. Marsh Blue Violet
Viola cucullata
89. Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Lysimachia lanceolata
90. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
91. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
92. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
93. American Beakgrain
Diarrhena obovata
94. Whorled Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum verticillatum
95. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
96. Wild Sarsaparilla
Aralia nudicaulis
97. Canada Mayflower
Maianthemum canadense
98. Blue Sedge
Carex glaucodea
99. Lance Selfheal
Prunella vulgaris var. lanceolata
100. Downy Rattlesnake Plantain
Goodyera pubescens
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