This list shows 120 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. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
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. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
19. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
20. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
21. Dwarf Crested Iris
Iris cristata
22. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
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. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
29. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
30. Wild Sweetwilliam
Phlox maculata
31. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
32. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
33. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
34. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
35. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
36. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
37. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
38. Eastern Teaberry
Gaultheria procumbens
39. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
40. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
41. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
42. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
43. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
44. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
45. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
46. Celandine Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum
47. Woodland Stonecrop
Sedum ternatum
48. Lyreleaf Sage
Salvia lyrata
49. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
50. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
51. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
52. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
53. Plantainleaf Sedge
Carex plantaginea
54. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
55. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
56. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
57. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
58. Hoary Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum incanum
59. Roundleaf Ragwort
Packera obovata
60. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
61. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
62. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
63. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
64. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
65. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
66. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
67. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
68. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
69. Texas Sedge
Carex texensis
70. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
71. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
72. Scaly Blazing Star
Liatris squarrosa
73. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
74. Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Lysimachia lanceolata
75. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
76. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
77. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
78. Whorled Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum verticillatum
79. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
80. Canadian White Violet
Viola canadensis
81. Canada Mayflower
Maianthemum canadense
82. Late Purple Aster
Symphyotrichum patens
83. Azure Bluet
Houstonia caerulea
84. Blue Sedge
Carex glaucodea
85. Downy Rattlesnake Plantain
Goodyera pubescens
86. Smooth Wild Petunia
Ruellia strepens
87. Parlin’s Pussytoes
Antennaria parlinii
88. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
89. Hairy Solomon’s Seal
Polygonatum pubescens
90. Violet Wood-Sorrel
Oxalis violacea
91. Blue Ridge Blueberry
Vaccinium pallidum
92. Woodbine
Parthenocissus vitacea
93. Slender Lespedeza
Lespedeza virginica
94. Early Blue Violet
Viola palmata
95. Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolia
96. Hairy Lespedeza
Lespedeza hirta
97. Rock Polypody
Polypodium virginianum
98. Long-Leaved Bluet
Houstonia longifolia
99. Man Of The Earth
Ipomoea pandurata
100. White Bear Sedge
Carex albursina
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