This list shows 85 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. Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
5. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
6. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
7. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
8. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
9. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
10. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
11. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
12. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
13. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
14. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
15. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
16. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
17. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
18. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
19. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
20. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
21. Azure Blue Sage
Salvia azurea
22. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
23. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
24. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
25. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
26. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
27. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
28. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
29. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
30. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
31. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
32. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
33. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
34. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
35. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
36. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
37. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
38. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
39. Maximilian Sunflower
Helianthus maximiliani
40. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
41. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
42. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
43. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
44. Large Beardtongue
Penstemon grandiflorus
45. Autumn Onion
Allium stellatum
46. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
47. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
48. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
49. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
50. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
51. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
52. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
53. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
54. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
55. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
56. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
57. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
58. Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Lysimachia lanceolata
59. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
60. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
61. Longbract Spiderwort
Tradescantia bracteata
62. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
63. Wild Sarsaparilla
Aralia nudicaulis
64. Downy Rattlesnake Plantain
Goodyera pubescens
65. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
66. Woodbine
Parthenocissus vitacea
67. Early Blue Violet
Viola palmata
68. Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolia
69. Hoary Puccoon
Lithospermum canescens
70. Rock Polypody
Polypodium virginianum
71. White Bear Sedge
Carex albursina
72. Downy Phlox
Phlox pilosa
73. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
74. Pointed Broom Sedge
Carex scoparia
75. Crested Sedge
Carex cristatella
76. Tall Cinquefoil
Drymocallis arguta
77. Leavenworth’s Sedge
Carex leavenworthii
78. Whitemouth Dayflower
Commelina erecta
79. Northern Dewberry
Rubus flagellaris
80. Bur-Reed Sedge
Carex sparganioides
81. Western Oak Sedge
Carex inops
82. Shortbeak Sedge
Carex brevior
83. Greater Straw Sedge
Carex normalis
84. Summer Grape
Vitis aestivalis
85. Common Yellow Woodsorrel
Oxalis stricta
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