This list shows 87 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. Butterfly Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa
4. Northern Sea Oats
Chasmanthium latifolium
5. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
6. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
7. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
8. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
9. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
10. American Alumroot
Heuchera americana
11. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
12. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
13. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
14. Dwarf Crested Iris
Iris cristata
15. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
16. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
17. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
18. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
19. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
20. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
21. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
22. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
23. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
24. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
25. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
26. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
27. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
28. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
29. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
30. Maypop
Passiflora incarnata
31. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
32. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
33. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
34. Celandine Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum
35. Woodland Stonecrop
Sedum ternatum
36. Eastern Beebalm
Monarda bradburiana
37. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
38. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
39. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
40. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
41. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
42. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
43. Star Tickseed
Coreopsis pubescens
44. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
45. Eastern Bluestar
Amsonia tabernaemontana var. salicifolia
46. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
47. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
48. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
49. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
50. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
51. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
52. Scaly Blazing Star
Liatris squarrosa
53. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
54. Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Lysimachia lanceolata
55. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
56. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
57. Whorled Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum verticillatum
58. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
59. Late Purple Aster
Symphyotrichum patens
60. Blue Sedge
Carex glaucodea
61. Downy Rattlesnake Plantain
Goodyera pubescens
62. Smooth Wild Petunia
Ruellia strepens
63. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
64. Violet Wood-Sorrel
Oxalis violacea
65. Narrowleaf Vervain
Verbena simplex
66. Slender Lespedeza
Lespedeza virginica
67. Early Blue Violet
Viola palmata
68. Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolia
69. Hairy Lespedeza
Lespedeza hirta
70. Hoary Puccoon
Lithospermum canescens
71. Rock Polypody
Polypodium virginianum
72. Long-Leaved Bluet
Houstonia longifolia
73. Man Of The Earth
Ipomoea pandurata
74. White Bear Sedge
Carex albursina
75. Creek Sedge
Carex amphibola
76. Downy Wood Mint
Blephilia ciliata
77. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
78. Crested Sedge
Carex cristatella
79. Leavenworth’s Sedge
Carex leavenworthii
80. Whitemouth Dayflower
Commelina erecta
81. Northern Dewberry
Rubus flagellaris
82. Bush’s Sedge
Carex bushii
83. Pennsylvania Blackberry
Rubus ×pensilvanicus
84. Shortbeak Sedge
Carex brevior
85. Greater Straw Sedge
Carex normalis
86. Orangegrass
Hypericum gentianoides
87. Summer Grape
Vitis aestivalis
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