This list shows 140 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. Creeping Phlox
Phlox subulata
2. Little Bluestem
Schizachyrium scoparium
3. Butterfly Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa
4. Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
5. Northern Sea Oats
Chasmanthium latifolium
6. Hairawn Muhly
Muhlenbergia capillaris
7. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
8. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
9. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
10. Trumpet Honeysuckle
Lonicera sempervirens
11. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
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. White Wood Aster
Eurybia divaricata
20. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
21. Clustered Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum muticum
22. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
23. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
24. Marginal Wood Fern
Dryopteris marginalis
25. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
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. Hairy Beardtongue
Penstemon hirsutus
31. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
32. Wild Sweetwilliam
Phlox maculata
33. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
34. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
35. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
36. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
37. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
38. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
39. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
40. Eastern Teaberry
Gaultheria procumbens
41. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
42. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
43. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
44. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
45. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
46. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
47. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
48. Narrowleaf Evening Primrose
Oenothera fruticosa
49. Narrowleaf Evening Primrose
Oenothera fruticosa
50. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
51. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
52. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
53. Woodland Stonecrop
Sedum ternatum
54. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
55. Lyreleaf Sage
Salvia lyrata
56. Sweet Fern
Comptonia peregrina
57. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
58. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
59. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
60. Eastern Hay-Scented Fern
Dennstaedtia punctilobula
61. Horseflyweed
Baptisia tinctoria
62. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
63. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
64. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
65. Hoary Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum incanum
66. Roundleaf Ragwort
Packera obovata
67. Hyssopleaf Thoroughwort
Eupatorium hyssopifolium
68. Maryland Goldenaster
Chrysopsis mariana
69. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
70. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
71. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
72. New York Aster
Symphyotrichum novi-belgii
73. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
74. Purple-Flowering Raspberry
Rubus odoratus
75. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
76. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
77. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
78. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
79. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
80. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
81. Low Serviceberry
Amelanchier spicata
82. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
83. Sticky Catchfly
Silene caroliniana
84. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
85. Broad-Leaved Meadowsweet
Spiraea alba var. latifolia
86. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
87. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
88. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
89. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
90. Marsh Blue Violet
Viola cucullata
91. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
92. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
93. Whorled Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum verticillatum
94. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
95. Canadian White Violet
Viola canadensis
96. Wild Sarsaparilla
Aralia nudicaulis
97. Canada Mayflower
Maianthemum canadense
98. Helmet Flower
Scutellaria integrifolia
99. Late Purple Aster
Symphyotrichum patens
100. Broadleaf Sedge
Carex platyphylla
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