This list shows 159 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. Butterfly Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa
4. Anise Hyssop
Agastache foeniculum
5. Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
6. Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
7. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
8. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
9. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
10. Chives
Allium schoenoprasum
11. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
12. Shrubby Cinquefoil
Dasiphora fruticosa
13. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
14. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
15. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
16. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
17. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
18. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
19. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
20. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
21. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
22. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
23. Bunchberry Dogwood
Cornus canadensis
24. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
25. Marginal Wood Fern
Dryopteris marginalis
26. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
27. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
28. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
29. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
30. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
31. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
32. Hairy Beardtongue
Penstemon hirsutus
33. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
34. Rocky Mountain Blazing Star
Liatris ligulistylis
35. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
36. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
37. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
38. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
39. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
40. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
41. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
42. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
43. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
44. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
45. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
46. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
47. Bluebell Bellflower
Campanula rotundifolia
48. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
49. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
50. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
51. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
52. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
53. Old Man’s Whiskers
Geum triflorum
54. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
55. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
56. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
57. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
58. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
59. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
60. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
61. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
62. Kalm’s St. John’s Wort
Hypericum kalmianum
63. Sweet Fern
Comptonia peregrina
64. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
65. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
66. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
67. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
68. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
69. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
70. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
71. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
72. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
73. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
74. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
75. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
76. Large Beardtongue
Penstemon grandiflorus
77. Autumn Onion
Allium stellatum
78. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
79. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
80. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
81. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
82. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
83. Purple-Flowering Raspberry
Rubus odoratus
84. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
85. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
86. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
87. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
88. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
89. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
90. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
91. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
92. Low Serviceberry
Amelanchier spicata
93. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
94. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
95. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
96. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
97. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
98. Western Silver Aster
Symphyotrichum sericeum
99. Prairie Sundrops
Oenothera pilosella
100. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
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