This list shows 110 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. Northern Sea Oats
Chasmanthium latifolium
5. Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
6. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
7. Large-Flowered Tickseed
Coreopsis grandiflora
8. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
9. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
10. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
11. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
12. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
13. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
14. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
15. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
16. Purple Poppymallow
Callirhoe involucrata
17. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
18. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
19. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
20. Pinkladies
Oenothera speciosa
21. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
22. Plains Coreopsis
Coreopsis tinctoria
23. Azure Blue Sage
Salvia azurea
24. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
25. Buffalograss
Bouteloua dactyloides
26. Rose Mock Vervain
Glandularia canadensis
27. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
28. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
29. Blue Grama
Bouteloua gracilis
30. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
31. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
32. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
33. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
34. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
35. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
36. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
37. Bigfruit Evening Primrose
Oenothera macrocarpa
38. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
39. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
40. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
41. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
42. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
43. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
44. Bigfruit Evening Primrose
Oenothera macrocarpa subsp. macrocarpa
45. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
46. Maximilian Sunflower
Helianthus maximiliani
47. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
48. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
49. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
50. Large Beardtongue
Penstemon grandiflorus
51. Roundleaf Ragwort
Packera obovata
52. Dakota Mock Vervain
Glandularia bipinnatifida
53. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
54. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
55. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
56. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
57. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
58. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
59. Dotted Blazing Star
Liatris punctata
60. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
61. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
62. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
63. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
64. Western Silver Aster
Symphyotrichum sericeum
65. Scaly Blazing Star
Liatris squarrosa
66. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
67. Blue Wild Indigo
Baptisia minor
68. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
69. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
70. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
71. Longbract Spiderwort
Tradescantia bracteata
72. American Beakgrain
Diarrhena obovata
73. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
74. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica var. serotina
75. Prairie Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium campestre
76. Plains Pricklypear
Opuntia macrorhiza
77. Smooth Wild Petunia
Ruellia strepens
78. Parlin’s Pussytoes
Antennaria parlinii
79. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
80. Violet Wood-Sorrel
Oxalis violacea
81. Narrowleaf Vervain
Verbena simplex
82. Hairy Grama
Bouteloua hirsuta
83. Slender Lespedeza
Lespedeza virginica
84. Jersey Tea
Ceanothus herbaceus
85. Early Blue Violet
Viola palmata
86. Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolia
87. Hoary Puccoon
Lithospermum canescens
88. Narrowleaf Stoneseed
Lithospermum incisum
89. Shaggy Dwarf Morning-Glory
Evolvulus nuttallianus
90. Man Of The Earth
Ipomoea pandurata
91. Light Poppymallow
Callirhoe alcaeoides
92. Wood Muhly
Muhlenbergia sylvatica
93. Downy Phlox
Phlox pilosa
94. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
95. Pointed Broom Sedge
Carex scoparia
96. Crested Sedge
Carex cristatella
97. Tall Cinquefoil
Drymocallis arguta
98. Leavenworth’s Sedge
Carex leavenworthii
99. Prairie Ragwort
Packera plattensis
100. Whitemouth Dayflower
Commelina erecta
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