This list shows 111 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. Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
5. Northern Sea Oats
Chasmanthium latifolium
6. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
7. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
8. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
9. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
10. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
11. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
12. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
13. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
14. American Alumroot
Heuchera americana
15. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
16. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
17. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
18. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
19. Clustered Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum muticum
20. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
21. Dwarf Crested Iris
Iris cristata
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. Hairy Beardtongue
Penstemon hirsutus
30. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
31. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
32. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
33. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
34. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
35. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
36. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
37. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
38. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
39. Maypop
Passiflora incarnata
40. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
41. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
42. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
43. Eastern Smooth Beardtongue
Penstemon laevigatus
44. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
45. Celandine Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum
46. Woodland Stonecrop
Sedum ternatum
47. Lyreleaf Sage
Salvia lyrata
48. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
49. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
50. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
51. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
52. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
53. Creeping Sedge
Carex laxiculmis
54. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
55. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
56. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
57. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
58. Hoary Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum incanum
59. Roundleaf Ragwort
Packera obovata
60. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
61. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
62. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
63. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
64. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
65. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
66. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
67. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
68. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
69. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
70. Texas Sedge
Carex texensis
71. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
72. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
73. Scaly Blazing Star
Liatris squarrosa
74. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
75. Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Lysimachia lanceolata
76. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
77. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
78. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
79. Canadian White Violet
Viola canadensis
80. Late Purple Aster
Symphyotrichum patens
81. Blue Sedge
Carex glaucodea
82. Downy Rattlesnake Plantain
Goodyera pubescens
83. Smooth Wild Petunia
Ruellia strepens
84. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
85. Hairy Solomon’s Seal
Polygonatum pubescens
86. Violet Wood-Sorrel
Oxalis violacea
87. Narrowleaf Vervain
Verbena simplex
88. Slender Lespedeza
Lespedeza virginica
89. Early Blue Violet
Viola palmata
90. Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolia
91. Hairy Lespedeza
Lespedeza hirta
92. Hoary Puccoon
Lithospermum canescens
93. Long-Leaved Bluet
Houstonia longifolia
94. Man Of The Earth
Ipomoea pandurata
95. White Bear Sedge
Carex albursina
96. Running Strawberry Bush
Euonymus obovatus
97. Creek Sedge
Carex amphibola
98. Downy Wood Mint
Blephilia ciliata
99. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
100. Crested Sedge
Carex cristatella
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