This list shows 147 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. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
21. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
22. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
23. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
24. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
25. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
26. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
27. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
28. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
29. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
30. Rocky Mountain Blazing Star
Liatris ligulistylis
31. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
32. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
33. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
34. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
35. Tufted Hairgrass
Deschampsia cespitosa
36. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
37. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
38. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
39. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
40. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
41. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
42. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
43. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
44. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
45. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
46. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
47. Old Man’s Whiskers
Geum triflorum
48. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
49. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
50. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
51. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
52. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
53. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
54. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
55. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
56. Celandine Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum
57. Kalm’s St. John’s Wort
Hypericum kalmianum
58. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
59. Sweet Fern
Comptonia peregrina
60. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
61. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
62. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
63. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
64. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
65. Plantainleaf Sedge
Carex plantaginea
66. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
67. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
68. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
69. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
70. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
71. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
72. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
73. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
74. Autumn Onion
Allium stellatum
75. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
76. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
77. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
78. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
79. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
80. Purple-Flowering Raspberry
Rubus odoratus
81. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
82. Cleft Phlox
Phlox bifida
83. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
84. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
85. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
86. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
87. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
88. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
89. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
90. Low Serviceberry
Amelanchier spicata
91. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
92. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
93. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
94. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
95. Western Silver Aster
Symphyotrichum sericeum
96. Prairie Sundrops
Oenothera pilosella
97. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
98. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
99. Common Juniper
Juniperus communis var. depressa
100. Marsh Blue Violet
Viola cucullata
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