This list shows 113 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. Creeping Juniper
Juniperus horizontalis
3. Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
4. Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
5. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
6. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
7. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
8. Heartleaf Foamflower
Tiarella cordifolia
9. Chives
Allium schoenoprasum
10. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
11. Shrubby Cinquefoil
Dasiphora fruticosa
12. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
13. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
14. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
15. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
16. Bunchberry Dogwood
Cornus canadensis
17. Marginal Wood Fern
Dryopteris marginalis
18. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
19. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
20. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
21. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
22. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
23. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
24. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
25. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
26. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
27. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
28. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
29. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
30. Eastern Teaberry
Gaultheria procumbens
31. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
32. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
33. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
34. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
35. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
36. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
37. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
38. Sweet Fern
Comptonia peregrina
39. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
40. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
41. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
42. Eastern Hay-Scented Fern
Dennstaedtia punctilobula
43. Plantainleaf Sedge
Carex plantaginea
44. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
45. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
46. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
47. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
48. Hookedspur Violet
Viola adunca
49. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
50. Running Serviceberry
Amelanchier stolonifera
51. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
52. New York Aster
Symphyotrichum novi-belgii
53. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
54. Purple-Flowering Raspberry
Rubus odoratus
55. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
56. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
57. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
58. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
59. Low Serviceberry
Amelanchier spicata
60. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
61. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
62. Broad-Leaved Meadowsweet
Spiraea alba var. latifolia
63. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
64. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
65. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
66. Common Juniper
Juniperus communis var. depressa
67. Marsh Blue Violet
Viola cucullata
68. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
69. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
70. Largeleaf Avens
Geum macrophyllum
71. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
72. Canadian White Violet
Viola canadensis
73. Wild Sarsaparilla
Aralia nudicaulis
74. Canada Mayflower
Maianthemum canadense
75. Broadleaf Sedge
Carex platyphylla
76. Azure Bluet
Houstonia caerulea
77. Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium montanum
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. Narrowleaf Vervain
Verbena simplex
85. Blue Ridge Blueberry
Vaccinium pallidum
86. Woodbine
Parthenocissus vitacea
87. Sweet White Violet
Viola blanda
88. Rock Polypody
Polypodium virginianum
89. Long-Leaved Bluet
Houstonia longifolia
90. White Bear Sedge
Carex albursina
91. Creek Sedge
Carex amphibola
92. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
93. Pointed Broom Sedge
Carex scoparia
94. Crested Sedge
Carex cristatella
95. Tall Cinquefoil
Drymocallis arguta
96. Northern Dewberry
Rubus flagellaris
97. Bur-Reed Sedge
Carex sparganioides
98. Prairie Fleabane
Erigeron strigosus
99. Velvetleaf Huckleberry
Vaccinium myrtilloides
100. Pubescent Sedge
Carex hirtifolia
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