This list shows 105 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. Butterfly Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa
4. Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
5. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
6. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
7. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
8. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
9. Shrubby Cinquefoil
Dasiphora fruticosa
10. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
11. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
12. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
13. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
14. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
15. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
16. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
17. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
18. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
19. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
20. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
21. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
22. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
23. Hairy Beardtongue
Penstemon hirsutus
24. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
25. Wild Sweetwilliam
Phlox maculata
26. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
27. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
28. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
29. Tufted Hairgrass
Deschampsia cespitosa
30. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
31. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
32. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
33. Eastern Teaberry
Gaultheria procumbens
34. Bluebell Bellflower
Campanula rotundifolia
35. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
36. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
37. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
38. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
39. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
40. Narrowleaf Evening Primrose
Oenothera fruticosa
41. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
42. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
43. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
44. Celandine Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum
45. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
46. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
47. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
48. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
49. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
50. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
51. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
52. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
53. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
54. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
55. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
56. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
57. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
58. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
59. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
60. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
61. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
62. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
63. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
64. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
65. Marsh Blue Violet
Viola cucullata
66. Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Lysimachia lanceolata
67. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
68. Whorled Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum verticillatum
69. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
70. Canadian White Violet
Viola canadensis
71. Lance Selfheal
Prunella vulgaris var. lanceolata
72. Downy Rattlesnake Plantain
Goodyera pubescens
73. Smooth Wild Petunia
Ruellia strepens
74. Parlin’s Pussytoes
Antennaria parlinii
75. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
76. Blue Ridge Blueberry
Vaccinium pallidum
77. Eastern Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium atlanticum
78. Woodbine
Parthenocissus vitacea
79. Slender Lespedeza
Lespedeza virginica
80. Early Blue Violet
Viola palmata
81. Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolia
82. Hairy Lespedeza
Lespedeza hirta
83. Hoary Puccoon
Lithospermum canescens
84. Man Of The Earth
Ipomoea pandurata
85. White Bear Sedge
Carex albursina
86. Running Strawberry Bush
Euonymus obovatus
87. Downy Phlox
Phlox pilosa
88. Downy Wood Mint
Blephilia ciliata
89. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
90. Pointed Broom Sedge
Carex scoparia
91. Crested Sedge
Carex cristatella
92. Tall Cinquefoil
Drymocallis arguta
93. Leavenworth’s Sedge
Carex leavenworthii
94. Striped Prince’s Pine
Chimaphila maculata
95. Whitemouth Dayflower
Commelina erecta
96. Northern Dewberry
Rubus flagellaris
97. Prairie Fleabane
Erigeron strigosus
98. Quill Sedge
Carex tenera
99. Pennsylvania Blackberry
Rubus ×pensilvanicus
100. Shaved Sedge
Carex tonsa
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