This list shows 161 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. Kinnikinnick
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
16. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
17. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
18. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
19. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
20. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
21. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
22. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
23. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
24. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
25. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
26. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
27. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
28. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
29. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
30. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
31. Hairy Beardtongue
Penstemon hirsutus
32. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
33. Wild Sweetwilliam
Phlox maculata
34. Rocky Mountain Blazing Star
Liatris ligulistylis
35. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
36. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
37. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
38. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
39. Tufted Hairgrass
Deschampsia cespitosa
40. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
41. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
42. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
43. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
44. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
45. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
46. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
47. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
48. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
49. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
50. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
51. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
52. Old Man’s Whiskers
Geum triflorum
53. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
54. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
55. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
56. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
57. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
58. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
59. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
60. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
61. Kalm’s St. John’s Wort
Hypericum kalmianum
62. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
63. Sweet Fern
Comptonia peregrina
64. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
65. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
66. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
67. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
68. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
69. Plantainleaf Sedge
Carex plantaginea
70. Creeping Sedge
Carex laxiculmis
71. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
72. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
73. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
74. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
75. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
76. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
77. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
78. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
79. Large Beardtongue
Penstemon grandiflorus
80. Autumn Onion
Allium stellatum
81. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
82. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
83. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
84. Sand Cherry
Prunus pumila
85. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
86. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
87. Purple-Flowering Raspberry
Rubus odoratus
88. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
89. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
90. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
91. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
92. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
93. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
94. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
95. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
96. Low Serviceberry
Amelanchier spicata
97. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
98. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
99. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
100. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
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