This list shows 151 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. 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. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
22. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
23. Bunchberry Dogwood
Cornus canadensis
24. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
25. Marginal Wood Fern
Dryopteris marginalis
26. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
27. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
28. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
29. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
30. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
31. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
32. Hairy Beardtongue
Penstemon hirsutus
33. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
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. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
40. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
41. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
42. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
43. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
44. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
45. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
46. Bluebell Bellflower
Campanula rotundifolia
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. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
54. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
55. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
56. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
57. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
58. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
59. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
60. Kalm’s St. John’s Wort
Hypericum kalmianum
61. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
62. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
63. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
64. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
65. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
66. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
67. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
68. Plantainleaf Sedge
Carex plantaginea
69. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
70. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
71. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
72. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
73. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
74. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
75. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
76. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
77. Large Beardtongue
Penstemon grandiflorus
78. Autumn Onion
Allium stellatum
79. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
80. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
81. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
82. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
83. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
84. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
85. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
86. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
87. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
88. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
89. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
90. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
91. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
92. Low Serviceberry
Amelanchier spicata
93. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
94. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
95. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
96. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
97. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
98. Western Silver Aster
Symphyotrichum sericeum
99. Prairie Sundrops
Oenothera pilosella
100. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
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