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. 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. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
12. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
13. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
14. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
15. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
16. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
17. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
18. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
19. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
20. Purple Poppymallow
Callirhoe involucrata
21. Marginal Wood Fern
Dryopteris marginalis
22. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
23. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
24. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
25. Pinkladies
Oenothera speciosa
26. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
27. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
28. Indian Blanket
Gaillardia pulchella
29. Plains Coreopsis
Coreopsis tinctoria
30. Azure Blue Sage
Salvia azurea
31. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
32. Buffalograss
Bouteloua dactyloides
33. Rose Mock Vervain
Glandularia canadensis
34. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
35. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
36. Blue Grama
Bouteloua gracilis
37. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
38. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
39. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
40. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
41. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
42. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
43. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
44. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
45. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
46. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
47. Bigfruit Evening Primrose
Oenothera macrocarpa
48. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
49. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
50. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
51. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
52. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
53. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
54. Bigfruit Evening Primrose
Oenothera macrocarpa subsp. macrocarpa
55. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
56. Maximilian Sunflower
Helianthus maximiliani
57. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
58. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
59. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
60. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
61. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
62. Lemon Beebalm
Monarda citriodora
63. Roundleaf Ragwort
Packera obovata
64. Ozark Bluestar
Amsonia illustris
65. Blue Wood Sedge
Carex flaccosperma
66. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
67. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
68. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
69. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
70. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
71. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
72. Hairy Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum pilosum
73. Dotted Blazing Star
Liatris punctata
74. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
75. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
76. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
77. Texas Sedge
Carex texensis
78. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
79. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
80. Western Silver Aster
Symphyotrichum sericeum
81. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
82. Scaly Blazing Star
Liatris squarrosa
83. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
84. Blue Wild Indigo
Baptisia minor
85. Largeflower Fameflower
Phemeranthus calycinus
86. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
87. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
88. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
89. Longbract Spiderwort
Tradescantia bracteata
90. American Beakgrain
Diarrhena obovata
91. Whorled Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum verticillatum
92. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
93. Late Purple Aster
Symphyotrichum patens
94. Prairie Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium campestre
95. Plains Pricklypear
Opuntia macrorhiza
96. Smooth Wild Petunia
Ruellia strepens
97. Parlin’s Pussytoes
Antennaria parlinii
98. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
99. Violet Wood-Sorrel
Oxalis violacea
100. Narrowleaf Vervain
Verbena simplex
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