This list shows 166 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. Creeping Phlox
Phlox subulata
3. Little Bluestem
Schizachyrium scoparium
4. Butterfly Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa
5. Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
6. Northern Sea Oats
Chasmanthium latifolium
7. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
8. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
9. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
10. Trumpet Honeysuckle
Lonicera sempervirens
11. Heartleaf Foamflower
Tiarella cordifolia
12. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
13. Shrubby Cinquefoil
Dasiphora fruticosa
14. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
15. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
16. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
17. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
18. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
19. American Alumroot
Heuchera americana
20. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
21. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
22. White Wood Aster
Eurybia divaricata
23. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
24. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
25. Clustered Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum muticum
26. Creeping Phlox
Phlox stolonifera
27. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
28. Dwarf Crested Iris
Iris cristata
29. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
30. Marginal Wood Fern
Dryopteris marginalis
31. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
32. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
33. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
34. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
35. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
36. Hairy Beardtongue
Penstemon hirsutus
37. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
38. Wild Sweetwilliam
Phlox maculata
39. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
40. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
41. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
42. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
43. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
44. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
45. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
46. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
47. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
48. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
49. Eastern Teaberry
Gaultheria procumbens
50. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
51. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
52. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
53. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
54. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
55. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
56. Narrowleaf Evening Primrose
Oenothera fruticosa
57. Eastern Smooth Beardtongue
Penstemon laevigatus
58. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
59. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
60. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
61. Woodland Stonecrop
Sedum ternatum
62. Lyreleaf Sage
Salvia lyrata
63. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
64. Sweet Fern
Comptonia peregrina
65. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
66. Appalachian Sedge
Carex appalachica
67. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
68. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
69. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
70. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
71. Eastern Hay-Scented Fern
Dennstaedtia punctilobula
72. Plantainleaf Sedge
Carex plantaginea
73. Creeping Sedge
Carex laxiculmis
74. Horseflyweed
Baptisia tinctoria
75. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
76. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
77. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
78. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
79. Hoary Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum incanum
80. Roundleaf Ragwort
Packera obovata
81. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
82. Meehan’s Mint
Meehania cordata
83. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
84. Running Serviceberry
Amelanchier stolonifera
85. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
86. Sand Cherry
Prunus pumila
87. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
88. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
89. Purple-Flowering Raspberry
Rubus odoratus
90. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
91. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
92. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
93. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
94. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
95. Low Serviceberry
Amelanchier spicata
96. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
97. Sticky Catchfly
Silene caroliniana
98. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
99. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
100. Prairie Sundrops
Oenothera pilosella
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