This list shows 115 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. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
5. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
6. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
7. Heartleaf Foamflower
Tiarella cordifolia
8. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
9. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
10. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
11. Kinnikinnick
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
12. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
13. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
14. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
15. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
16. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
17. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
18. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
19. Marginal Wood Fern
Dryopteris marginalis
20. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
21. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
22. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
23. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
24. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
25. Hairy Beardtongue
Penstemon hirsutus
26. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
27. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
28. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
29. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
30. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
31. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
32. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
33. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
34. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
35. Eastern Teaberry
Gaultheria procumbens
36. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
37. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
38. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
39. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
40. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
41. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
42. Celandine Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum
43. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
44. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
45. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
46. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
47. Plantainleaf Sedge
Carex plantaginea
48. Creeping Sedge
Carex laxiculmis
49. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
50. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
51. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
52. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
53. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
54. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
55. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
56. Purple-Flowering Raspberry
Rubus odoratus
57. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
58. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
59. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
60. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
61. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
62. Low Serviceberry
Amelanchier spicata
63. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
64. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
65. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
66. Prairie Sundrops
Oenothera pilosella
67. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
68. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
69. Marsh Blue Violet
Viola cucullata
70. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
71. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
72. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
73. Canadian White Violet
Viola canadensis
74. Wild Sarsaparilla
Aralia nudicaulis
75. Canada Mayflower
Maianthemum canadense
76. Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium montanum
77. Lance Selfheal
Prunella vulgaris var. lanceolata
78. Downy Rattlesnake Plantain
Goodyera pubescens
79. Little Evening Primrose
Oenothera perennis
80. Greater Bladder Sedge
Carex intumescens
81. Parlin’s Pussytoes
Antennaria parlinii
82. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
83. Hairy Solomon’s Seal
Polygonatum pubescens
84. Common Woodrush
Luzula multiflora
85. Narrowleaf Vervain
Verbena simplex
86. Blue Ridge Blueberry
Vaccinium pallidum
87. Woodbine
Parthenocissus vitacea
88. Jersey Tea
Ceanothus herbaceus
89. Early Blue Violet
Viola palmata
90. Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolia
91. Hairy Lespedeza
Lespedeza hirta
92. Sweet White Violet
Viola blanda
93. Hoary Puccoon
Lithospermum canescens
94. White Bear Sedge
Carex albursina
95. Running Strawberry Bush
Euonymus obovatus
96. Creek Sedge
Carex amphibola
97. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
98. Pointed Broom Sedge
Carex scoparia
99. Crested Sedge
Carex cristatella
100. Tall Cinquefoil
Drymocallis arguta
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