This list shows 161 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. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
11. Shrubby Cinquefoil
Dasiphora fruticosa
12. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
13. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
14. Kinnikinnick
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
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. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
21. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
22. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
23. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
24. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
25. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
26. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
27. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
28. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
29. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
30. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
31. Hairy Beardtongue
Penstemon hirsutus
32. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
33. Wild Sweetwilliam
Phlox maculata
34. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
35. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
36. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
37. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
38. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
39. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
40. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
41. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
42. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
43. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
44. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
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. Sweet Fern
Comptonia peregrina
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. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
68. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
69. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
70. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
71. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
72. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
73. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
74. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
75. Large Beardtongue
Penstemon grandiflorus
76. Autumn Onion
Allium stellatum
77. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
78. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
79. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
80. Sand Cherry
Prunus pumila
81. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
82. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
83. Purple-Flowering Raspberry
Rubus odoratus
84. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
85. Cleft Phlox
Phlox bifida
86. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
87. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
88. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
89. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
90. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
91. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
92. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
93. Low Serviceberry
Amelanchier spicata
94. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
95. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
96. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
97. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
98. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
99. Western Silver Aster
Symphyotrichum sericeum
100. Prairie Sundrops
Oenothera pilosella
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