This list shows 117 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. Northern Sea Oats
Chasmanthium latifolium
5. Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
6. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
7. Large-Flowered Tickseed
Coreopsis grandiflora
8. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
9. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
10. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
11. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
12. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
13. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
14. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
15. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
16. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
17. Purple Poppymallow
Callirhoe involucrata
18. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
19. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
20. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
21. Pinkladies
Oenothera speciosa
22. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
23. Indian Blanket
Gaillardia pulchella
24. Plains Coreopsis
Coreopsis tinctoria
25. Azure Blue Sage
Salvia azurea
26. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
27. Buffalograss
Bouteloua dactyloides
28. Rose Mock Vervain
Glandularia canadensis
29. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
30. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
31. Blue Grama
Bouteloua gracilis
32. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
33. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
34. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
35. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
36. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
37. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
38. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
39. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
40. Bigfruit Evening Primrose
Oenothera macrocarpa
41. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
42. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
43. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
44. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
45. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
46. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
47. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
48. Bigfruit Evening Primrose
Oenothera macrocarpa subsp. macrocarpa
49. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
50. Maximilian Sunflower
Helianthus maximiliani
51. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
52. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
53. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
54. Lemon Beebalm
Monarda citriodora
55. Large Beardtongue
Penstemon grandiflorus
56. Roundleaf Ragwort
Packera obovata
57. Blue Wood Sedge
Carex flaccosperma
58. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
59. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
60. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
61. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
62. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
63. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
64. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
65. Dotted Blazing Star
Liatris punctata
66. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
67. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
68. Texas Sedge
Carex texensis
69. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
70. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
71. Western Silver Aster
Symphyotrichum sericeum
72. Scaly Blazing Star
Liatris squarrosa
73. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
74. Blue Wild Indigo
Baptisia minor
75. Largeflower Fameflower
Phemeranthus calycinus
76. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
77. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
78. Longbract Spiderwort
Tradescantia bracteata
79. American Beakgrain
Diarrhena obovata
80. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
81. Prairie Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium campestre
82. Plains Pricklypear
Opuntia macrorhiza
83. Smooth Wild Petunia
Ruellia strepens
84. Parlin’s Pussytoes
Antennaria parlinii
85. Fringed Poppy Mallow
Callirhoe digitata
86. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
87. Violet Wood-Sorrel
Oxalis violacea
88. Narrowleaf Vervain
Verbena simplex
89. Hairy Grama
Bouteloua hirsuta
90. Slender Lespedeza
Lespedeza virginica
91. Jersey Tea
Ceanothus herbaceus
92. Early Blue Violet
Viola palmata
93. Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolia
94. Hoary Puccoon
Lithospermum canescens
95. Narrowleaf Stoneseed
Lithospermum incisum
96. Shaggy Dwarf Morning-Glory
Evolvulus nuttallianus
97. Man Of The Earth
Ipomoea pandurata
98. Light Poppymallow
Callirhoe alcaeoides
99. Downy Phlox
Phlox pilosa
100. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
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