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. 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. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
12. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
13. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
14. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
15. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
16. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
17. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
18. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
19. Purple Poppymallow
Callirhoe involucrata
20. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
21. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
22. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
23. Pinkladies
Oenothera speciosa
24. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
25. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
26. Indian Blanket
Gaillardia pulchella
27. Plains Coreopsis
Coreopsis tinctoria
28. Azure Blue Sage
Salvia azurea
29. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
30. Buffalograss
Bouteloua dactyloides
31. Rose Mock Vervain
Glandularia canadensis
32. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
33. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
34. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
35. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
36. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
37. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
38. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
39. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
40. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
41. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
42. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
43. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
44. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
45. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
46. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
47. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
48. Bigfruit Evening Primrose
Oenothera macrocarpa subsp. macrocarpa
49. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
50. Maximilian Sunflower
Helianthus maximiliani
51. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
52. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
53. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
54. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
55. Lemon Beebalm
Monarda citriodora
56. Roundleaf Ragwort
Packera obovata
57. Blue Wood Sedge
Carex flaccosperma
58. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
59. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
60. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
61. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
62. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
63. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
64. Hairy Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum pilosum
65. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
66. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
67. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
68. Texas Sedge
Carex texensis
69. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
70. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
71. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
72. Scaly Blazing Star
Liatris squarrosa
73. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
74. Blue Wild Indigo
Baptisia minor
75. Largeflower Fameflower
Phemeranthus calycinus
76. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
77. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
78. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
79. Longbract Spiderwort
Tradescantia bracteata
80. American Beakgrain
Diarrhena obovata
81. Whorled Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum verticillatum
82. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
83. Late Purple Aster
Symphyotrichum patens
84. Prairie Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium campestre
85. Lance Selfheal
Prunella vulgaris var. lanceolata
86. Smooth Wild Petunia
Ruellia strepens
87. Parlin’s Pussytoes
Antennaria parlinii
88. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
89. Violet Wood-Sorrel
Oxalis violacea
90. Narrowleaf Vervain
Verbena simplex
91. Slender Lespedeza
Lespedeza virginica
92. Jersey Tea
Ceanothus herbaceus
93. Early Blue Violet
Viola palmata
94. Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolia
95. Hoary Puccoon
Lithospermum canescens
96. Narrowleaf Stoneseed
Lithospermum incisum
97. Shaggy Dwarf Morning-Glory
Evolvulus nuttallianus
98. Man Of The Earth
Ipomoea pandurata
99. Light Poppymallow
Callirhoe alcaeoides
100. White Bear Sedge
Carex albursina
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