This list shows 164 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. Northern Sea Oats
Chasmanthium latifolium
6. Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
7. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
8. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
9. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
10. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
11. Shrubby Cinquefoil
Dasiphora fruticosa
12. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
13. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
14. Kinnikinnick
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
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. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
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. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
35. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
36. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
37. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
38. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
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. Celandine Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum
60. Kalm’s St. John’s Wort
Hypericum kalmianum
61. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
62. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
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. Creeping Sedge
Carex laxiculmis
70. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
71. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
72. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
73. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
74. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
75. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
76. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
77. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
78. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
79. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
80. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
81. Sand Cherry
Prunus pumila
82. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
83. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
84. Purple-Flowering Raspberry
Rubus odoratus
85. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
86. Cleft Phlox
Phlox bifida
87. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
88. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
89. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
90. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
91. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
92. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
93. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
94. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
95. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
96. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
97. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
98. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
99. Western Silver Aster
Symphyotrichum sericeum
100. Prairie Sundrops
Oenothera pilosella
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