This list shows 135 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. Orange Coneflower
Rudbeckia fulgida
2. Little Bluestem
Schizachyrium scoparium
3. Butterfly Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa
4. Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
5. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
6. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
7. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
8. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
9. Shrubby Cinquefoil
Dasiphora fruticosa
10. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
11. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
12. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
13. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
14. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
15. American Alumroot
Heuchera americana
16. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
17. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
18. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
19. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
20. Marginal Wood Fern
Dryopteris marginalis
21. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
22. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
23. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
24. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
25. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
26. Hairy Beardtongue
Penstemon hirsutus
27. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
28. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
29. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
30. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
31. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
32. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
33. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
34. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
35. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
36. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
37. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
38. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
39. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
40. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
41. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
42. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
43. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
44. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
45. Narrowleaf Evening Primrose
Oenothera fruticosa
46. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
47. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
48. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
49. Celandine Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum
50. Woodland Stonecrop
Sedum ternatum
51. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
52. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
53. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
54. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
55. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
56. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
57. Eastern Hay-Scented Fern
Dennstaedtia punctilobula
58. Creeping Sedge
Carex laxiculmis
59. Horseflyweed
Baptisia tinctoria
60. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
61. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
62. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
63. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
64. Roundleaf Ragwort
Packera obovata
65. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
66. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
67. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
68. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
69. Purple-Flowering Raspberry
Rubus odoratus
70. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
71. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
72. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
73. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
74. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
75. Low Serviceberry
Amelanchier spicata
76. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
77. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
78. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
79. Prairie Sundrops
Oenothera pilosella
80. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
81. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
82. Marsh Blue Violet
Viola cucullata
83. Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Lysimachia lanceolata
84. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
85. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
86. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
87. Whorled Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum verticillatum
88. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
89. Canadian White Violet
Viola canadensis
90. Wild Sarsaparilla
Aralia nudicaulis
91. Canada Mayflower
Maianthemum canadense
92. Broadleaf Sedge
Carex platyphylla
93. Azure Bluet
Houstonia caerulea
94. Blue Sedge
Carex glaucodea
95. Downy Rattlesnake Plantain
Goodyera pubescens
96. Greater Bladder Sedge
Carex intumescens
97. Parlin’s Pussytoes
Antennaria parlinii
98. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
99. Hairy Solomon’s Seal
Polygonatum pubescens
100. Violet Wood-Sorrel
Oxalis violacea
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