This list shows 149 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. Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
6. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
7. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
8. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
9. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
10. Shrubby Cinquefoil
Dasiphora fruticosa
11. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
12. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
13. Kinnikinnick
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
14. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
15. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
16. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
17. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
18. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
19. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
20. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
21. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
22. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
23. Marginal Wood Fern
Dryopteris marginalis
24. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
25. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
26. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
27. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
28. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
29. Hairy Beardtongue
Penstemon hirsutus
30. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
31. Wild Sweetwilliam
Phlox maculata
32. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
33. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
34. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
35. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
36. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
37. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
38. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
39. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
40. Eastern Teaberry
Gaultheria procumbens
41. Bluebell Bellflower
Campanula rotundifolia
42. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
43. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
44. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
45. Old Man’s Whiskers
Geum triflorum
46. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
47. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
48. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
49. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
50. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
51. Narrowleaf Evening Primrose
Oenothera fruticosa
52. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
53. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
54. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
55. Celandine Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum
56. Kalm’s St. John’s Wort
Hypericum kalmianum
57. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
58. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
59. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
60. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
61. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
62. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
63. Plantainleaf Sedge
Carex plantaginea
64. Creeping Sedge
Carex laxiculmis
65. Horseflyweed
Baptisia tinctoria
66. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
67. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
68. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
69. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
70. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
71. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
72. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
73. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
74. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
75. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
76. Sand Cherry
Prunus pumila
77. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
78. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
79. Cleft Phlox
Phlox bifida
80. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
81. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
82. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
83. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
84. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
85. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
86. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
87. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
88. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
89. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
90. Prairie Sundrops
Oenothera pilosella
91. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
92. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
93. Common Juniper
Juniperus communis var. depressa
94. Marsh Blue Violet
Viola cucullata
95. Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Lysimachia lanceolata
96. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
97. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
98. Whorled Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum verticillatum
99. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
100. Canadian White Violet
Viola canadensis
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