This list shows 150 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. 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. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
16. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
17. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
18. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
19. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
20. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
21. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
22. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
23. Marginal Wood Fern
Dryopteris marginalis
24. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
25. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
26. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
27. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
28. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
29. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
30. Hairy Beardtongue
Penstemon hirsutus
31. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
32. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
33. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
34. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
35. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
36. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
37. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
38. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
39. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
40. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
41. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
42. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
43. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
44. Bluebell Bellflower
Campanula rotundifolia
45. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
46. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
47. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
48. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
49. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
50. Old Man’s Whiskers
Geum triflorum
51. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
52. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
53. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
54. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
55. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
56. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
57. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
58. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
59. Kalm’s St. John’s Wort
Hypericum kalmianum
60. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
61. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
62. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
63. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
64. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
65. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
66. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
67. Plantainleaf Sedge
Carex plantaginea
68. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
69. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
70. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
71. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
72. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
73. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
74. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
75. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
76. Large Beardtongue
Penstemon grandiflorus
77. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
78. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
79. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
80. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
81. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
82. Purple-Flowering Raspberry
Rubus odoratus
83. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
84. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
85. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
86. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
87. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
88. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
89. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
90. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
91. Low Serviceberry
Amelanchier spicata
92. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
93. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
94. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
95. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
96. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
97. Western Silver Aster
Symphyotrichum sericeum
98. Prairie Sundrops
Oenothera pilosella
99. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
100. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
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