This list shows 75 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. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
5. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
6. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
7. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
8. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
9. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
10. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
11. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
12. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
13. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
14. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
15. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
16. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
17. Wild Sweetwilliam
Phlox maculata
18. Rocky Mountain Blazing Star
Liatris ligulistylis
19. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
20. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
21. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
22. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
23. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
24. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
25. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
26. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
27. Old Man’s Whiskers
Geum triflorum
28. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
29. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
30. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
31. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
32. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
33. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
34. Maximilian Sunflower
Helianthus maximiliani
35. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
36. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
37. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
38. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
39. Large Beardtongue
Penstemon grandiflorus
40. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
41. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
42. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
43. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
44. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
45. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
46. Low Serviceberry
Amelanchier spicata
47. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
48. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
49. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
50. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
51. Western Silver Aster
Symphyotrichum sericeum
52. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
53. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
54. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
55. Longbract Spiderwort
Tradescantia bracteata
56. Prairie Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium campestre
57. Downy Rattlesnake Plantain
Goodyera pubescens
58. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
59. Woodbine
Parthenocissus vitacea
60. Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolia
61. Hoary Puccoon
Lithospermum canescens
62. White Bear Sedge
Carex albursina
63. Downy Phlox
Phlox pilosa
64. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
65. Pointed Broom Sedge
Carex scoparia
66. Crested Sedge
Carex cristatella
67. Tall Cinquefoil
Drymocallis arguta
68. Bur-Reed Sedge
Carex sparganioides
69. Prairie Fleabane
Erigeron strigosus
70. Pubescent Sedge
Carex hirtifolia
71. Quill Sedge
Carex tenera
72. Western Oak Sedge
Carex inops
73. Shortbeak Sedge
Carex brevior
74. Greater Straw Sedge
Carex normalis
75. Common Yellow Woodsorrel
Oxalis stricta
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