This list shows 135 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. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
13. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
14. Kinnikinnick
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
15. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
16. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
17. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
18. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
19. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
20. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
21. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
22. Bunchberry Dogwood
Cornus canadensis
23. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
24. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
25. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
26. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
27. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
28. Wild Sweetwilliam
Phlox maculata
29. Rocky Mountain Blazing Star
Liatris ligulistylis
30. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
31. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
32. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
33. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
34. Blue Grama
Bouteloua gracilis
35. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
36. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
37. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
38. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
39. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
40. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
41. Bluebell Bellflower
Campanula rotundifolia
42. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
43. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
44. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
45. Old Man’s Whiskers
Geum triflorum
46. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
47. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
48. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
49. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
50. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
51. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
52. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
53. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
54. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
55. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
56. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
57. Maximilian Sunflower
Helianthus maximiliani
58. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
59. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
60. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
61. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
62. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
63. Large Beardtongue
Penstemon grandiflorus
64. Autumn Onion
Allium stellatum
65. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
66. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
67. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
68. Sand Cherry
Prunus pumila
69. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
70. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
71. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
72. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
73. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
74. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
75. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
76. Dotted Blazing Star
Liatris punctata
77. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
78. Low Serviceberry
Amelanchier spicata
79. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
80. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
81. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
82. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
83. Western Silver Aster
Symphyotrichum sericeum
84. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
85. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
86. Common Juniper
Juniperus communis var. depressa
87. Marsh Blue Violet
Viola cucullata
88. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
89. Western Snowberry
Symphoricarpos occidentalis
90. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
91. Longbract Spiderwort
Tradescantia bracteata
92. Largeleaf Avens
Geum macrophyllum
93. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
94. Canadian White Violet
Viola canadensis
95. Wild Sarsaparilla
Aralia nudicaulis
96. Canada Mayflower
Maianthemum canadense
97. Brittle Pricklypear
Opuntia fragilis
98. Prairie Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium campestre
99. Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium montanum
100. Plains Pricklypear
Opuntia macrorhiza
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