This list shows 117 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. Little Bluestem
Schizachyrium scoparium
2. Creeping Juniper
Juniperus horizontalis
3. Butterfly Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa
4. Anise Hyssop
Agastache foeniculum
5. Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
6. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
7. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
8. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
9. Chives
Allium schoenoprasum
10. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
11. Shrubby Cinquefoil
Dasiphora fruticosa
12. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
13. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
14. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
15. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
16. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
17. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
18. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
19. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
20. Bunchberry Dogwood
Cornus canadensis
21. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
22. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
23. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
24. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
25. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
26. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
27. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
28. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
29. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
30. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
31. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
32. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
33. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
34. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
35. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
36. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
37. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
38. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
39. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
40. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
41. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
42. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
43. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
44. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
45. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
46. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
47. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
48. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
49. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
50. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
51. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
52. Creeping Sedge
Carex laxiculmis
53. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
54. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
55. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
56. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
57. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
58. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
59. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
60. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
61. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
62. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
63. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
64. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
65. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
66. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
67. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
68. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
69. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
70. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
71. Low Serviceberry
Amelanchier spicata
72. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
73. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
74. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
75. Prairie Sundrops
Oenothera pilosella
76. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
77. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
78. Common Juniper
Juniperus communis var. depressa
79. Marsh Blue Violet
Viola cucullata
80. Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Lysimachia lanceolata
81. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
82. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
83. Canadian White Violet
Viola canadensis
84. Wild Sarsaparilla
Aralia nudicaulis
85. Canada Mayflower
Maianthemum canadense
86. Downy Rattlesnake Plantain
Goodyera pubescens
87. Little Evening Primrose
Oenothera perennis
88. Greater Bladder Sedge
Carex intumescens
89. Parlin’s Pussytoes
Antennaria parlinii
90. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
91. Hairy Solomon’s Seal
Polygonatum pubescens
92. Common Woodrush
Luzula multiflora
93. Woodbine
Parthenocissus vitacea
94. Jersey Tea
Ceanothus herbaceus
95. Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolia
96. Sweet White Violet
Viola blanda
97. Hoary Puccoon
Lithospermum canescens
98. Rock Polypody
Polypodium virginianum
99. Long-Leaved Bluet
Houstonia longifolia
100. White Bear Sedge
Carex albursina
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