This list shows 86 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. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
5. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
6. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
7. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
8. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
9. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
10. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
11. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
12. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
13. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
14. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
15. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
16. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
17. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
18. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
19. Plains Coreopsis
Coreopsis tinctoria
20. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
21. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
22. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
23. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
24. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
25. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
26. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
27. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
28. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
29. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
30. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
31. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
32. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
33. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
34. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
35. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
36. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
37. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
38. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
39. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
40. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
41. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
42. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
43. Large Beardtongue
Penstemon grandiflorus
44. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
45. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
46. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
47. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
48. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
49. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
50. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
51. Hairy Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum pilosum
52. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
53. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
54. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
55. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
56. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
57. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
58. Longbract Spiderwort
Tradescantia bracteata
59. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
60. Wild Sarsaparilla
Aralia nudicaulis
61. Prairie Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium campestre
62. Plains Pricklypear
Opuntia macrorhiza
63. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
64. Woodbine
Parthenocissus vitacea
65. Early Blue Violet
Viola palmata
66. Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolia
67. Sweet White Violet
Viola blanda
68. Hoary Puccoon
Lithospermum canescens
69. White Bear Sedge
Carex albursina
70. Wood Muhly
Muhlenbergia sylvatica
71. Downy Phlox
Phlox pilosa
72. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
73. Pointed Broom Sedge
Carex scoparia
74. Crested Sedge
Carex cristatella
75. Tall Cinquefoil
Drymocallis arguta
76. Leavenworth’s Sedge
Carex leavenworthii
77. Whitemouth Dayflower
Commelina erecta
78. Bur-Reed Sedge
Carex sparganioides
79. Bush’s Sedge
Carex bushii
80. Prairie Fleabane
Erigeron strigosus
81. Cutleaf Evening Primrose
Oenothera laciniata
82. Pubescent Sedge
Carex hirtifolia
83. Western Oak Sedge
Carex inops
84. Shortbeak Sedge
Carex brevior
85. Greater Straw Sedge
Carex normalis
86. Common Yellow Woodsorrel
Oxalis stricta
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