This list shows 151 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. Creeping Juniper
Juniperus horizontalis
4. Butterfly Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa
5. Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
6. Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
7. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
8. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
9. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
10. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
11. Shrubby Cinquefoil
Dasiphora fruticosa
12. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
13. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
14. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
15. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
16. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
17. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
18. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
19. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
20. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
21. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
22. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
23. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
24. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
25. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
26. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
27. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
28. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
29. Hairy Beardtongue
Penstemon hirsutus
30. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
31. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
32. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
33. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
34. Tufted Hairgrass
Deschampsia cespitosa
35. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
36. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
37. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
38. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
39. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
40. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
41. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
42. Bluebell Bellflower
Campanula rotundifolia
43. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
44. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
45. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
46. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
47. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
48. Old Man’s Whiskers
Geum triflorum
49. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
50. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
51. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
52. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
53. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
54. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
55. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
56. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
57. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
58. Sweet Fern
Comptonia peregrina
59. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
60. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
61. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
62. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
63. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
64. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
65. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
66. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
67. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
68. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
69. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
70. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
71. Large Beardtongue
Penstemon grandiflorus
72. Autumn Onion
Allium stellatum
73. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
74. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
75. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
76. Sand Cherry
Prunus pumila
77. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
78. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
79. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
80. Cleft Phlox
Phlox bifida
81. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
82. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
83. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
84. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
85. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
86. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
87. Low Serviceberry
Amelanchier spicata
88. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
89. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
90. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
91. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
92. Western Silver Aster
Symphyotrichum sericeum
93. Prairie Sundrops
Oenothera pilosella
94. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
95. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
96. Common Juniper
Juniperus communis var. depressa
97. Marsh Blue Violet
Viola cucullata
98. Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Lysimachia lanceolata
99. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
100. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
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