This list shows 125 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. Anise Hyssop
Agastache foeniculum
4. Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
5. Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
6. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
7. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
8. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
9. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
10. Shrubby Cinquefoil
Dasiphora fruticosa
11. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
12. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
13. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
14. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
15. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
16. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
17. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
18. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
19. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
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. Plains Coreopsis
Coreopsis tinctoria
26. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
27. Rocky Mountain Blazing Star
Liatris ligulistylis
28. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
29. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
30. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
31. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
32. Blue Grama
Bouteloua gracilis
33. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
34. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
35. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
36. Bluebell Bellflower
Campanula rotundifolia
37. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
38. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
39. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
40. Old Man’s Whiskers
Geum triflorum
41. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
42. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
43. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
44. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
45. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
46. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
47. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
48. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
49. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
50. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
51. Maximilian Sunflower
Helianthus maximiliani
52. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
53. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
54. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
55. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
56. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
57. Large Beardtongue
Penstemon grandiflorus
58. Autumn Onion
Allium stellatum
59. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
60. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
61. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
62. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
63. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
64. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
65. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
66. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
67. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
68. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
69. Dotted Blazing Star
Liatris punctata
70. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
71. Low Serviceberry
Amelanchier spicata
72. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
73. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
74. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
75. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
76. Western Silver Aster
Symphyotrichum sericeum
77. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
78. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
79. Common Juniper
Juniperus communis var. depressa
80. Marsh Blue Violet
Viola cucullata
81. Western Snowberry
Symphoricarpos occidentalis
82. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
83. Longbract Spiderwort
Tradescantia bracteata
84. Canadian White Violet
Viola canadensis
85. Wild Sarsaparilla
Aralia nudicaulis
86. Canada Mayflower
Maianthemum canadense
87. Brittle Pricklypear
Opuntia fragilis
88. Prairie Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium campestre
89. Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium montanum
90. Lance Selfheal
Prunella vulgaris var. lanceolata
91. Downy Rattlesnake Plantain
Goodyera pubescens
92. Greater Bladder Sedge
Carex intumescens
93. Parlin’s Pussytoes
Antennaria parlinii
94. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
95. Hairy Solomon’s Seal
Polygonatum pubescens
96. Violet Wood-Sorrel
Oxalis violacea
97. Narrowleaf Vervain
Verbena simplex
98. Hairy Grama
Bouteloua hirsuta
99. Woodbine
Parthenocissus vitacea
100. Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolia
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