This list shows 126 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. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
12. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
13. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
14. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
15. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
16. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
17. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
18. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
19. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
20. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
21. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
22. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
23. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
24. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
25. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
26. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
27. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
28. Hairy Beardtongue
Penstemon hirsutus
29. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
30. Wild Sweetwilliam
Phlox maculata
31. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
32. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
33. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
34. Tufted Hairgrass
Deschampsia cespitosa
35. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
36. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
37. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
38. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
39. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
40. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
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. Celandine Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum
55. Kalm’s St. John’s Wort
Hypericum kalmianum
56. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
57. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
58. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
59. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
60. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
61. Plantainleaf Sedge
Carex plantaginea
62. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
63. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
64. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
65. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
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. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
71. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
72. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
73. Purple-Flowering Raspberry
Rubus odoratus
74. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
75. Cleft Phlox
Phlox bifida
76. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
77. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
78. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
79. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
80. Hairy Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum pilosum
81. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
82. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
83. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
84. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
85. Prairie Sundrops
Oenothera pilosella
86. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
87. Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Lysimachia lanceolata
88. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
89. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
90. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
91. Whorled Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum verticillatum
92. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
93. Wild Sarsaparilla
Aralia nudicaulis
94. Blue Sedge
Carex glaucodea
95. Lance Selfheal
Prunella vulgaris var. lanceolata
96. Downy Rattlesnake Plantain
Goodyera pubescens
97. Greater Bladder Sedge
Carex intumescens
98. Parlin’s Pussytoes
Antennaria parlinii
99. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
100. Violet Wood-Sorrel
Oxalis violacea
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