This list shows 135 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. Butterfly Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa
4. Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
5. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
6. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
7. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
8. Chives
Allium schoenoprasum
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. American Alumroot
Heuchera americana
17. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
18. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
19. Bunchberry Dogwood
Cornus canadensis
20. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
21. Marginal Wood Fern
Dryopteris marginalis
22. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
23. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
24. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
25. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
26. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
27. Hairy Beardtongue
Penstemon hirsutus
28. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
29. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
30. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
31. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
32. Tufted Hairgrass
Deschampsia cespitosa
33. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
34. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
35. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
36. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
37. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
38. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
39. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
40. Eastern Teaberry
Gaultheria procumbens
41. Bluebell Bellflower
Campanula rotundifolia
42. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
43. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
44. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
45. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
46. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
47. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
48. Narrowleaf Evening Primrose
Oenothera fruticosa
49. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
50. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
51. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
52. Celandine Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum
53. Kalm’s St. John’s Wort
Hypericum kalmianum
54. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
55. Sweet Fern
Comptonia peregrina
56. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
57. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
58. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
59. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
60. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
61. Plantainleaf Sedge
Carex plantaginea
62. Creeping Sedge
Carex laxiculmis
63. Horseflyweed
Baptisia tinctoria
64. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
65. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
66. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
67. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
68. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
69. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
70. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
71. Sand Cherry
Prunus pumila
72. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
73. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
74. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
75. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
76. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
77. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
78. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
79. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
80. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
81. Common Juniper
Juniperus communis var. depressa
82. Marsh Blue Violet
Viola cucullata
83. Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Lysimachia lanceolata
84. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
85. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
86. Whorled Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum verticillatum
87. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
88. Canadian White Violet
Viola canadensis
89. Wild Sarsaparilla
Aralia nudicaulis
90. Canada Mayflower
Maianthemum canadense
91. Downy Rattlesnake Plantain
Goodyera pubescens
92. Greater Bladder Sedge
Carex intumescens
93. Parlin’s Pussytoes
Antennaria parlinii
94. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
95. Hairy Solomon’s Seal
Polygonatum pubescens
96. Common Woodrush
Luzula multiflora
97. Blue Ridge Blueberry
Vaccinium pallidum
98. Eastern Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium atlanticum
99. Woodbine
Parthenocissus vitacea
100. Slender Lespedeza
Lespedeza virginica
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