This list shows 169 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. Northern Sea Oats
Chasmanthium latifolium
6. Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
7. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
8. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
9. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
10. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
11. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
12. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
13. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
14. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
15. American Alumroot
Heuchera americana
16. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
17. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
18. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
19. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
20. Clustered Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum muticum
21. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
22. Dwarf Crested Iris
Iris cristata
23. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
24. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
25. Marginal Wood Fern
Dryopteris marginalis
26. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
27. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
28. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
29. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
30. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
31. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
32. Azure Blue Sage
Salvia azurea
33. Wild Sweetwilliam
Phlox maculata
34. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
35. Buffalograss
Bouteloua dactyloides
36. Rose Mock Vervain
Glandularia canadensis
37. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
38. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
39. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
40. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
41. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
42. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
43. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
44. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
45. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
46. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
47. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
48. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
49. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
50. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
51. Maypop
Passiflora incarnata
52. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
53. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
54. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
55. Narrowleaf Evening Primrose
Oenothera fruticosa
56. Bigfruit Evening Primrose
Oenothera macrocarpa
57. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
58. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
59. Celandine Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum
60. Woodland Stonecrop
Sedum ternatum
61. Eastern Beebalm
Monarda bradburiana
62. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
63. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
64. Lyreleaf Sage
Salvia lyrata
65. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
66. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
67. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
68. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
69. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
70. Bigfruit Evening Primrose
Oenothera macrocarpa subsp. macrocarpa
71. Creeping Sedge
Carex laxiculmis
72. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
73. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
74. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
75. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
76. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
77. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
78. Lemon Beebalm
Monarda citriodora
79. Star Tickseed
Coreopsis pubescens
80. Roundleaf Ragwort
Packera obovata
81. Ozark Bluestar
Amsonia illustris
82. Blue Wood Sedge
Carex flaccosperma
83. Autumn Onion
Allium stellatum
84. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
85. Eastern Bluestar
Amsonia tabernaemontana var. salicifolia
86. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
87. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
88. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
89. Cleft Phlox
Phlox bifida
90. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
91. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
92. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
93. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
94. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
95. Hairy Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum pilosum
96. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
97. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
98. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
99. Texas Sedge
Carex texensis
100. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
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