This list shows 121 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. 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. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
18. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
19. Bunchberry Dogwood
Cornus canadensis
20. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
21. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
22. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
23. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
24. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
25. Hairy Beardtongue
Penstemon hirsutus
26. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
27. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
28. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
29. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
30. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
31. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
32. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
33. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
34. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
35. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
36. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
37. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
38. Bluebell Bellflower
Campanula rotundifolia
39. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
40. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
41. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
42. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
43. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
44. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
45. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
46. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
47. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
48. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
49. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
50. Kalm’s St. John’s Wort
Hypericum kalmianum
51. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
52. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
53. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
54. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
55. Plantainleaf Sedge
Carex plantaginea
56. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
57. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
58. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
59. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
60. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
61. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
62. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
63. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
64. Sand Cherry
Prunus pumila
65. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
66. Purple-Flowering Raspberry
Rubus odoratus
67. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
68. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
69. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
70. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
71. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
72. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
73. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
74. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
75. Low Serviceberry
Amelanchier spicata
76. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
77. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
78. Prairie Sundrops
Oenothera pilosella
79. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
80. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
81. Common Juniper
Juniperus communis var. depressa
82. Marsh Blue Violet
Viola cucullata
83. Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Lysimachia lanceolata
84. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
85. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
86. Canadian White Violet
Viola canadensis
87. Wild Sarsaparilla
Aralia nudicaulis
88. Canada Mayflower
Maianthemum canadense
89. Prairie Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium campestre
90. Downy Rattlesnake Plantain
Goodyera pubescens
91. Little Evening Primrose
Oenothera perennis
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. Woodbine
Parthenocissus vitacea
97. Jersey Tea
Ceanothus herbaceus
98. Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolia
99. Hoary Puccoon
Lithospermum canescens
100. Rock Polypody
Polypodium virginianum
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