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. 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. Trumpet Honeysuckle
Lonicera sempervirens
8. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
9. Shrubby Cinquefoil
Dasiphora fruticosa
10. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
11. Kinnikinnick
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
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. White Wood Aster
Eurybia divaricata
18. Clustered Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum muticum
19. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
20. Marginal Wood Fern
Dryopteris marginalis
21. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
22. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
23. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
24. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
25. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
26. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
27. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
28. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
29. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
30. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
31. Tufted Hairgrass
Deschampsia cespitosa
32. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
33. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
34. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
35. Eastern Teaberry
Gaultheria procumbens
36. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
37. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
38. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
39. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
40. Pink Tickseed
Coreopsis rosea
41. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
42. Narrowleaf Evening Primrose
Oenothera fruticosa
43. Narrowleaf Evening Primrose
Oenothera fruticosa
44. Eastern Smooth Beardtongue
Penstemon laevigatus
45. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
46. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
47. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
48. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
49. Sweet Fern
Comptonia peregrina
50. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
51. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
52. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
53. Eastern Hay-Scented Fern
Dennstaedtia punctilobula
54. Creeping Sedge
Carex laxiculmis
55. Horseflyweed
Baptisia tinctoria
56. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
57. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
58. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
59. Hoary Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum incanum
60. Hyssopleaf Thoroughwort
Eupatorium hyssopifolium
61. Bitter Panicgrass
Panicum amarum
62. Maryland Goldenaster
Chrysopsis mariana
63. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
64. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
65. Running Serviceberry
Amelanchier stolonifera
66. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
67. New York Aster
Symphyotrichum novi-belgii
68. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
69. Purple-Flowering Raspberry
Rubus odoratus
70. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
71. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
72. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
73. Beach Plum
Prunus maritima
74. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
75. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
76. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
77. Low Serviceberry
Amelanchier spicata
78. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
79. Sticky Catchfly
Silene caroliniana
80. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
81. Broad-Leaved Meadowsweet
Spiraea alba var. latifolia
82. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
83. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
84. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
85. Common Juniper
Juniperus communis var. depressa
86. Marsh Blue Violet
Viola cucullata
87. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
88. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
89. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
90. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
91. Wild Sarsaparilla
Aralia nudicaulis
92. Canada Mayflower
Maianthemum canadense
93. Late Purple Aster
Symphyotrichum patens
94. Azure Bluet
Houstonia caerulea
95. Blue Sedge
Carex glaucodea
96. Downy Rattlesnake Plantain
Goodyera pubescens
97. Little Evening Primrose
Oenothera perennis
98. Greater Bladder Sedge
Carex intumescens
99. Parlin’s Pussytoes
Antennaria parlinii
100. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
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