This list shows 178 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. Kinnikinnick
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
15. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
16. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
17. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
18. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
19. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
20. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
21. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
22. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
23. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
24. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
25. Marginal Wood Fern
Dryopteris marginalis
26. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
27. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
28. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
29. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
30. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
31. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
32. Hairy Beardtongue
Penstemon hirsutus
33. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
34. Wild Sweetwilliam
Phlox maculata
35. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
36. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
37. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
38. Tufted Hairgrass
Deschampsia cespitosa
39. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
40. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
41. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
42. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
43. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
44. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
45. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
46. Bluebell Bellflower
Campanula rotundifolia
47. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
48. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
49. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
50. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
51. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
52. Old Man’s Whiskers
Geum triflorum
53. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
54. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
55. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
56. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
57. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
58. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
59. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
60. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
61. Celandine Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum
62. Woodland Stonecrop
Sedum ternatum
63. Kalm’s St. John’s Wort
Hypericum kalmianum
64. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
65. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
66. Sweet Fern
Comptonia peregrina
67. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
68. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
69. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
70. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
71. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
72. Plantainleaf Sedge
Carex plantaginea
73. Creeping Sedge
Carex laxiculmis
74. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
75. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
76. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
77. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
78. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
79. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
80. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
81. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
82. Large Beardtongue
Penstemon grandiflorus
83. Autumn Onion
Allium stellatum
84. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
85. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
86. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
87. Sand Cherry
Prunus pumila
88. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
89. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
90. Purple-Flowering Raspberry
Rubus odoratus
91. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
92. Cleft Phlox
Phlox bifida
93. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
94. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
95. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
96. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
97. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
98. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
99. Hairy Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum pilosum
100. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
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