This list shows 176 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. Northern Sea Oats
Chasmanthium latifolium
7. Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
8. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
9. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
10. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
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. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
17. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
18. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
19. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
20. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
21. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
22. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
23. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
24. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
25. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
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. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
42. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
43. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
44. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
45. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
46. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
47. Eastern Teaberry
Gaultheria procumbens
48. Bluebell Bellflower
Campanula rotundifolia
49. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
50. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
51. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
52. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
53. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
54. Old Man’s Whiskers
Geum triflorum
55. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
56. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
57. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
58. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
59. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
60. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
61. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
62. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
63. Celandine Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum
64. Kalm’s St. John’s Wort
Hypericum kalmianum
65. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
66. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
67. Sweet Fern
Comptonia peregrina
68. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
69. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
70. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
71. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
72. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
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. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
84. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
85. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
86. Sand Cherry
Prunus pumila
87. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
88. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
89. Purple-Flowering Raspberry
Rubus odoratus
90. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
91. Cleft Phlox
Phlox bifida
92. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
93. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
94. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
95. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
96. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
97. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
98. Hairy Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum pilosum
99. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
100. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
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