This list shows 171 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. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
15. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
16. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
17. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
18. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
19. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
20. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
21. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
22. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
23. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
24. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
25. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
26. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
27. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
28. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
29. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
30. Hairy Beardtongue
Penstemon hirsutus
31. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
32. Wild Sweetwilliam
Phlox maculata
33. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
34. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
35. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
36. Tufted Hairgrass
Deschampsia cespitosa
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. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
45. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
46. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
47. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
48. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
49. Old Man’s Whiskers
Geum triflorum
50. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
51. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
52. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
53. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
54. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
55. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
56. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
57. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
58. Celandine Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum
59. Woodland Stonecrop
Sedum ternatum
60. Kalm’s St. John’s Wort
Hypericum kalmianum
61. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
62. Sweet Fern
Comptonia peregrina
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. Creeping Sedge
Carex laxiculmis
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. Sand Cherry
Prunus pumila
83. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
84. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
85. Purple-Flowering Raspberry
Rubus odoratus
86. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
87. Cleft Phlox
Phlox bifida
88. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
89. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
90. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
91. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
92. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
93. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
94. Hairy Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum pilosum
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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