This list shows 152 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. 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. Tufted Hairgrass
Deschampsia cespitosa
38. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
39. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
40. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
41. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
42. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
43. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
44. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
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. Woodland Stonecrop
Sedum ternatum
61. Kalm’s St. John’s Wort
Hypericum kalmianum
62. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
63. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
64. Sweet Fern
Comptonia peregrina
65. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
66. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
67. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
68. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
69. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
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. Large Beardtongue
Penstemon grandiflorus
79. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
80. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
81. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
82. Purple-Flowering Raspberry
Rubus odoratus
83. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
84. Cleft Phlox
Phlox bifida
85. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
86. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
87. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
88. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
89. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
90. Hairy Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum pilosum
91. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
92. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
93. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
94. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
95. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
96. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
97. Western Silver Aster
Symphyotrichum sericeum
98. Prairie Sundrops
Oenothera pilosella
99. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
100. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
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