This list shows 169 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. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
15. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
16. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
17. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
18. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
19. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
20. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
21. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
22. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
23. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
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. Wild Sweetwilliam
Phlox maculata
33. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
34. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
35. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
36. Tufted Hairgrass
Deschampsia cespitosa
37. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
38. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
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. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
45. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
46. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
47. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
48. Old Man’s Whiskers
Geum triflorum
49. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
50. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
51. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
52. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
53. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
54. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
55. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
56. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
57. Celandine Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum
58. Kalm’s St. John’s Wort
Hypericum kalmianum
59. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
60. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
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. Creeping Sedge
Carex laxiculmis
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. Autumn Onion
Allium stellatum
78. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
79. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
80. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
81. Sand Cherry
Prunus pumila
82. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
83. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
84. Purple-Flowering Raspberry
Rubus odoratus
85. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
86. Cleft Phlox
Phlox bifida
87. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
88. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
89. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
90. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
91. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
92. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
93. Hairy Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum pilosum
94. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
95. Low Serviceberry
Amelanchier spicata
96. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
97. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
98. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
99. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
100. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
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