This list shows 144 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. Creeping Juniper
Juniperus horizontalis
4. Butterfly Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa
5. Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
6. Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
7. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
8. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
9. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
10. Chives
Allium schoenoprasum
11. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
12. Shrubby Cinquefoil
Dasiphora fruticosa
13. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
14. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
15. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
16. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
17. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
18. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
19. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
20. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
21. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
22. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
23. Bunchberry Dogwood
Cornus canadensis
24. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
25. Marginal Wood Fern
Dryopteris marginalis
26. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
27. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
28. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
29. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
30. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
31. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
32. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
33. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
34. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
35. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
36. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
37. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
38. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
39. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
40. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
41. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
42. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
43. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
44. Bluebell Bellflower
Campanula rotundifolia
45. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
46. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
47. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
48. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
49. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
50. Old Man’s Whiskers
Geum triflorum
51. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
52. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
53. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
54. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
55. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
56. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
57. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
58. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
59. Kalm’s St. John’s Wort
Hypericum kalmianum
60. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
61. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
62. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
63. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
64. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
65. Plantainleaf Sedge
Carex plantaginea
66. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
67. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
68. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
69. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
70. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
71. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
72. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
73. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
74. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
75. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
76. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
77. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
78. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
79. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
80. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
81. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
82. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
83. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
84. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
85. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
86. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
87. Low Serviceberry
Amelanchier spicata
88. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
89. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
90. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
91. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
92. Prairie Sundrops
Oenothera pilosella
93. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
94. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
95. Common Juniper
Juniperus communis var. depressa
96. Marsh Blue Violet
Viola cucullata
97. Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Lysimachia lanceolata
98. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
99. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
100. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
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