This list shows 139 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. 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. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
17. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
18. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
19. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
20. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
21. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
22. Purple Poppymallow
Callirhoe involucrata
23. Marginal Wood Fern
Dryopteris marginalis
24. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
25. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
26. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
27. Pinkladies
Oenothera speciosa
28. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
29. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
30. Indian Blanket
Gaillardia pulchella
31. Plains Coreopsis
Coreopsis tinctoria
32. Azure Blue Sage
Salvia azurea
33. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
34. Buffalograss
Bouteloua dactyloides
35. Rose Mock Vervain
Glandularia canadensis
36. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
37. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
38. Blue Grama
Bouteloua gracilis
39. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
40. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
41. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
42. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
43. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
44. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
45. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
46. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
47. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
48. Maypop
Passiflora incarnata
49. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
50. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
51. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
52. Bigfruit Evening Primrose
Oenothera macrocarpa
53. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
54. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
55. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
56. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
57. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
58. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
59. Bigfruit Evening Primrose
Oenothera macrocarpa subsp. macrocarpa
60. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
61. Maximilian Sunflower
Helianthus maximiliani
62. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
63. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
64. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
65. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
66. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
67. Lemon Beebalm
Monarda citriodora
68. Roundleaf Ragwort
Packera obovata
69. Blue Wood Sedge
Carex flaccosperma
70. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
71. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
72. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
73. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
74. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
75. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
76. Hairy Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum pilosum
77. Dotted Blazing Star
Liatris punctata
78. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
79. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
80. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
81. Texas Sedge
Carex texensis
82. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
83. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
84. Western Silver Aster
Symphyotrichum sericeum
85. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
86. Scaly Blazing Star
Liatris squarrosa
87. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
88. Blue Wild Indigo
Baptisia minor
89. Largeflower Fameflower
Phemeranthus calycinus
90. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
91. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
92. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
93. Longbract Spiderwort
Tradescantia bracteata
94. American Beakgrain
Diarrhena obovata
95. Whorled Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum verticillatum
96. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
97. Late Purple Aster
Symphyotrichum patens
98. Prairie Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium campestre
99. Plains Pricklypear
Opuntia macrorhiza
100. Smooth Wild Petunia
Ruellia strepens
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