This list shows 148 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. Creeping Juniper
Juniperus horizontalis
3. Butterfly Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa
4. Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
5. Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
6. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
7. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
8. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
9. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
10. Shrubby Cinquefoil
Dasiphora fruticosa
11. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
12. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
13. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
14. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
15. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
16. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
17. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
18. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
19. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
20. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
21. Bunchberry Dogwood
Cornus canadensis
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. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
31. Rocky Mountain Blazing Star
Liatris ligulistylis
32. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
33. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
34. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
35. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
36. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
37. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
38. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
39. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
40. Bluebell Bellflower
Campanula rotundifolia
41. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
42. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
43. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
44. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
45. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
46. Old Man’s Whiskers
Geum triflorum
47. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
48. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
49. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
50. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
51. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
52. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
53. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
54. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
55. Kalm’s St. John’s Wort
Hypericum kalmianum
56. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
57. Sweet Fern
Comptonia peregrina
58. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
59. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
60. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
61. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
62. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
63. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
64. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
65. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
66. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
67. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
68. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
69. Large Beardtongue
Penstemon grandiflorus
70. Autumn Onion
Allium stellatum
71. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
72. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
73. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
74. Sand Cherry
Prunus pumila
75. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
76. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
77. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
78. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
79. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
80. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
81. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
82. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
83. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
84. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
85. Low Serviceberry
Amelanchier spicata
86. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
87. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
88. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
89. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
90. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
91. Western Silver Aster
Symphyotrichum sericeum
92. Prairie Sundrops
Oenothera pilosella
93. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
94. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
95. Common Juniper
Juniperus communis var. depressa
96. Marsh Blue Violet
Viola cucullata
97. Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Lysimachia lanceolata
98. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
99. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
100. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
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