This list shows 132 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. Hairawn Muhly
Muhlenbergia capillaris
6. Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
7. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
8. Large-Flowered Tickseed
Coreopsis grandiflora
9. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
10. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
11. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
12. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
13. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
14. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
15. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
16. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
17. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
18. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
19. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
20. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
21. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
22. Purple Poppymallow
Callirhoe involucrata
23. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
24. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
25. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
26. Pinkladies
Oenothera speciosa
27. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
28. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
29. Indian Blanket
Gaillardia pulchella
30. Plains Coreopsis
Coreopsis tinctoria
31. Azure Blue Sage
Salvia azurea
32. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
33. Buffalograss
Bouteloua dactyloides
34. Rose Mock Vervain
Glandularia canadensis
35. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
36. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
37. Blue Grama
Bouteloua gracilis
38. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
39. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
40. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
41. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
42. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
43. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
44. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
45. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
46. Maypop
Passiflora incarnata
47. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
48. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
49. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
50. Bigfruit Evening Primrose
Oenothera macrocarpa
51. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
52. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
53. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
54. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
55. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
56. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
57. Bigfruit Evening Primrose
Oenothera macrocarpa subsp. macrocarpa
58. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
59. Maximilian Sunflower
Helianthus maximiliani
60. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
61. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
62. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
63. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
64. Lemon Beebalm
Monarda citriodora
65. Roundleaf Ragwort
Packera obovata
66. Blue Wood Sedge
Carex flaccosperma
67. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
68. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
69. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
70. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
71. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
72. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
73. Hairy Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum pilosum
74. Dotted Blazing Star
Liatris punctata
75. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
76. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
77. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
78. Texas Sedge
Carex texensis
79. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
80. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
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. Smooth Wild Petunia
Ruellia strepens
96. Parlin’s Pussytoes
Antennaria parlinii
97. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
98. Violet Wood-Sorrel
Oxalis violacea
99. Narrowleaf Vervain
Verbena simplex
100. Hairy Grama
Bouteloua hirsuta
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