This list shows 152 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. Hairawn Muhly
Muhlenbergia capillaris
6. Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
7. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
8. Large-Flowered Tickseed
Coreopsis grandiflora
9. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
10. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
11. Trumpet Honeysuckle
Lonicera sempervirens
12. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
13. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
14. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
15. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
16. American Alumroot
Heuchera americana
17. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
18. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
19. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
20. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
21. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
22. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
23. Marginal Wood Fern
Dryopteris marginalis
24. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
25. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
26. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
27. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
28. Pinkladies
Oenothera speciosa
29. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
30. Indian Blanket
Gaillardia pulchella
31. Plains Coreopsis
Coreopsis tinctoria
32. Azure Blue Sage
Salvia azurea
33. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
34. Rose Mock Vervain
Glandularia canadensis
35. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
36. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
37. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
38. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
39. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
40. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
41. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
42. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
43. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
44. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
45. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
46. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
47. Maypop
Passiflora incarnata
48. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
49. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
50. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
51. Bigfruit Evening Primrose
Oenothera macrocarpa
52. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
53. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
54. Eastern Beebalm
Monarda bradburiana
55. Lyreleaf Sage
Salvia lyrata
56. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
57. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
58. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
59. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
60. Bigfruit Evening Primrose
Oenothera macrocarpa subsp. macrocarpa
61. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
62. Maximilian Sunflower
Helianthus maximiliani
63. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
64. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
65. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
66. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
67. Lemon Beebalm
Monarda citriodora
68. Star Tickseed
Coreopsis pubescens
69. Roundleaf Ragwort
Packera obovata
70. Ozark Bluestar
Amsonia illustris
71. Blue Wood Sedge
Carex flaccosperma
72. Autumn Onion
Allium stellatum
73. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
74. Eastern Bluestar
Amsonia tabernaemontana var. salicifolia
75. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
76. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
77. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
78. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
79. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
80. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
81. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
82. Hairy Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum pilosum
83. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
84. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
85. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
86. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
87. Texas Sedge
Carex texensis
88. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
89. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
90. Western Silver Aster
Symphyotrichum sericeum
91. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
92. Scaly Blazing Star
Liatris squarrosa
93. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
94. Blue Wild Indigo
Baptisia minor
95. Largeflower Fameflower
Phemeranthus calycinus
96. Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Lysimachia lanceolata
97. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
98. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
99. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
100. Longbract Spiderwort
Tradescantia bracteata
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