This list shows 127 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. Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
6. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
7. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
8. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
9. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
10. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
11. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
12. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
13. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
14. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
15. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
16. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
17. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
18. Purple Poppymallow
Callirhoe involucrata
19. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
20. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
21. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
22. Pinkladies
Oenothera speciosa
23. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
24. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
25. Indian Blanket
Gaillardia pulchella
26. Plains Coreopsis
Coreopsis tinctoria
27. Azure Blue Sage
Salvia azurea
28. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
29. Rose Mock Vervain
Glandularia canadensis
30. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
31. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
32. Blue Grama
Bouteloua gracilis
33. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
34. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
35. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
36. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
37. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
38. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
39. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
40. Maypop
Passiflora incarnata
41. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
42. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
43. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
44. Bigfruit Evening Primrose
Oenothera macrocarpa
45. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
46. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
47. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
48. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
49. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
50. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
51. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
52. Bigfruit Evening Primrose
Oenothera macrocarpa subsp. macrocarpa
53. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
54. Maximilian Sunflower
Helianthus maximiliani
55. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
56. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
57. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
58. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
59. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
60. Lemon Beebalm
Monarda citriodora
61. Roundleaf Ragwort
Packera obovata
62. Ozark Bluestar
Amsonia illustris
63. Blue Wood Sedge
Carex flaccosperma
64. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
65. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
66. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
67. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
68. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
69. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
70. Dotted Blazing Star
Liatris punctata
71. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
72. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
73. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
74. Texas Sedge
Carex texensis
75. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
76. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
77. Western Silver Aster
Symphyotrichum sericeum
78. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
79. Scaly Blazing Star
Liatris squarrosa
80. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
81. Blue Wild Indigo
Baptisia minor
82. Largeflower Fameflower
Phemeranthus calycinus
83. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
84. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
85. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
86. Longbract Spiderwort
Tradescantia bracteata
87. Whorled Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum verticillatum
88. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
89. Late Purple Aster
Symphyotrichum patens
90. Prairie Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium campestre
91. Plains Pricklypear
Opuntia macrorhiza
92. Lance Selfheal
Prunella vulgaris var. lanceolata
93. Smooth Wild Petunia
Ruellia strepens
94. Parlin’s Pussytoes
Antennaria parlinii
95. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
96. Violet Wood-Sorrel
Oxalis violacea
97. Narrowleaf Vervain
Verbena simplex
98. Woodbine
Parthenocissus vitacea
99. Slender Lespedeza
Lespedeza virginica
100. Jersey Tea
Ceanothus herbaceus
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