This list shows 134 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. Little Bluestem
Schizachyrium scoparium
2. Butterfly Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa
3. Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
4. Northern Sea Oats
Chasmanthium latifolium
5. Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
6. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
7. Large-Flowered Tickseed
Coreopsis grandiflora
8. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
9. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
10. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
11. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
12. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
13. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
14. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
15. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
16. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
17. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
18. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
19. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
20. Purple Poppymallow
Callirhoe involucrata
21. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
22. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
23. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
24. Pinkladies
Oenothera speciosa
25. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
26. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
27. Indian Blanket
Gaillardia pulchella
28. Plains Coreopsis
Coreopsis tinctoria
29. Azure Blue Sage
Salvia azurea
30. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
31. Buffalograss
Bouteloua dactyloides
32. Rose Mock Vervain
Glandularia canadensis
33. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
34. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
35. Blue Grama
Bouteloua gracilis
36. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
37. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
38. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
39. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
40. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
41. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
42. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
43. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
44. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
45. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
46. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
47. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
48. Bigfruit Evening Primrose
Oenothera macrocarpa
49. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
50. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
51. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
52. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
53. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
54. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
55. Bigfruit Evening Primrose
Oenothera macrocarpa subsp. macrocarpa
56. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
57. Maximilian Sunflower
Helianthus maximiliani
58. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
59. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
60. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
61. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
62. Lemon Beebalm
Monarda citriodora
63. Roundleaf Ragwort
Packera obovata
64. Ozark Bluestar
Amsonia illustris
65. Blue Wood Sedge
Carex flaccosperma
66. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
67. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
68. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
69. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
70. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
71. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
72. Hairy Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum pilosum
73. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
74. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
75. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
76. Texas Sedge
Carex texensis
77. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
78. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
79. Western Silver Aster
Symphyotrichum sericeum
80. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
81. Scaly Blazing Star
Liatris squarrosa
82. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
83. Blue Wild Indigo
Baptisia minor
84. Largeflower Fameflower
Phemeranthus calycinus
85. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
86. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
87. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
88. Longbract Spiderwort
Tradescantia bracteata
89. Whorled Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum verticillatum
90. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
91. Late Purple Aster
Symphyotrichum patens
92. Prairie Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium campestre
93. Plains Pricklypear
Opuntia macrorhiza
94. Lance Selfheal
Prunella vulgaris var. lanceolata
95. Smooth Wild Petunia
Ruellia strepens
96. Parlin’s Pussytoes
Antennaria parlinii
97. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
98. Violet Wood-Sorrel
Oxalis violacea
99. Narrowleaf Vervain
Verbena simplex
100. Hairy Grama
Bouteloua hirsuta
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