This list shows 146 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. Creeping Juniper
Juniperus horizontalis
3. Butterfly Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa
4. Anise Hyssop
Agastache foeniculum
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. Chives
Allium schoenoprasum
11. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
12. Shrubby Cinquefoil
Dasiphora fruticosa
13. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
14. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
15. Kinnikinnick
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
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. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
22. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
23. Bunchberry Dogwood
Cornus canadensis
24. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
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. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
30. Rocky Mountain Blazing Star
Liatris ligulistylis
31. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
32. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
33. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
34. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
35. Blue Grama
Bouteloua gracilis
36. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
37. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
38. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
39. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
40. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
41. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
42. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
43. Bluebell Bellflower
Campanula rotundifolia
44. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
45. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
46. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
47. Old Man’s Whiskers
Geum triflorum
48. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
49. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
50. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
51. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
52. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
53. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
54. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
55. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
56. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
57. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
58. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
59. Maximilian Sunflower
Helianthus maximiliani
60. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
61. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
62. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
63. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
64. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
65. Large Beardtongue
Penstemon grandiflorus
66. Autumn Onion
Allium stellatum
67. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
68. Hookedspur Violet
Viola adunca
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. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
76. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
77. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
78. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
79. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
80. Fringed Sagebrush
Artemisia frigida
81. Dotted Blazing Star
Liatris punctata
82. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
83. Low Serviceberry
Amelanchier spicata
84. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
85. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
86. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
87. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
88. Western Silver Aster
Symphyotrichum sericeum
89. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
90. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
91. Common Juniper
Juniperus communis var. depressa
92. Marsh Blue Violet
Viola cucullata
93. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
94. Western Snowberry
Symphoricarpos occidentalis
95. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
96. Longbract Spiderwort
Tradescantia bracteata
97. American Beakgrain
Diarrhena obovata
98. Canadian White Violet
Viola canadensis
99. Wild Sarsaparilla
Aralia nudicaulis
100. Canada Mayflower
Maianthemum canadense
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