This list shows 90 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. Northern Sea Oats
Chasmanthium latifolium
6. Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
7. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
8. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
9. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
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. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
16. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
17. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
18. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
19. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
20. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
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. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
26. Wild Sweetwilliam
Phlox maculata
27. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
28. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
29. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
30. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
31. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
32. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
33. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
34. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
35. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
36. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
37. Celandine Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum
38. Woodland Stonecrop
Sedum ternatum
39. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
40. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
41. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
42. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
43. Plantainleaf Sedge
Carex plantaginea
44. Creeping Sedge
Carex laxiculmis
45. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
46. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
47. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
48. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
49. Roundleaf Ragwort
Packera obovata
50. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
51. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
52. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
53. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
54. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
55. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
56. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
57. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
58. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
59. Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Lysimachia lanceolata
60. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
61. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
62. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
63. Whorled Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum verticillatum
64. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
65. Downy Rattlesnake Plantain
Goodyera pubescens
66. Smooth Wild Petunia
Ruellia strepens
67. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
68. Hairy Solomon’s Seal
Polygonatum pubescens
69. Early Blue Violet
Viola palmata
70. Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolia
71. Hairy Lespedeza
Lespedeza hirta
72. Hoary Puccoon
Lithospermum canescens
73. Man Of The Earth
Ipomoea pandurata
74. White Bear Sedge
Carex albursina
75. Running Strawberry Bush
Euonymus obovatus
76. Creek Sedge
Carex amphibola
77. Downy Phlox
Phlox pilosa
78. Downy Wood Mint
Blephilia ciliata
79. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
80. Crested Sedge
Carex cristatella
81. Leavenworth’s Sedge
Carex leavenworthii
82. Whitemouth Dayflower
Commelina erecta
83. Northern Dewberry
Rubus flagellaris
84. Prairie Fleabane
Erigeron strigosus
85. Pubescent Sedge
Carex hirtifolia
86. Shortbeak Sedge
Carex brevior
87. Greater Straw Sedge
Carex normalis
88. Orangegrass
Hypericum gentianoides
89. Summer Grape
Vitis aestivalis
90. Common Yellow Woodsorrel
Oxalis stricta
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