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. 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. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
7. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
8. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
9. Trumpet Honeysuckle
Lonicera sempervirens
10. Heartleaf Foamflower
Tiarella cordifolia
11. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
12. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
13. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
14. Hairy Alumroot
Heuchera villosa
15. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
16. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
17. American Alumroot
Heuchera americana
18. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
19. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
20. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
21. Dwarf Crested Iris
Iris cristata
22. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
23. Marginal Wood Fern
Dryopteris marginalis
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. Hairy Beardtongue
Penstemon hirsutus
30. Wild Sweetwilliam
Phlox maculata
31. Allegheny Spurge
Pachysandra procumbens
32. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
33. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
34. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
35. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
36. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
37. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
38. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
39. Maypop
Passiflora incarnata
40. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
41. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
42. Narrowleaf Evening Primrose
Oenothera fruticosa
43. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
44. Celandine Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum
45. Woodland Stonecrop
Sedum ternatum
46. Lobed Tickseed
Coreopsis auriculata
47. Lyreleaf Sage
Salvia lyrata
48. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
49. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
50. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
51. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
52. Plantainleaf Sedge
Carex plantaginea
53. Creeping Sedge
Carex laxiculmis
54. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
55. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
56. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
57. Hoary Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum incanum
58. Roundleaf Ragwort
Packera obovata
59. Maryland Goldenaster
Chrysopsis mariana
60. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
61. Greater Tickseed
Coreopsis major
62. Meehan’s Mint
Meehania cordata
63. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
64. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
65. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
66. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
67. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
68. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
69. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
70. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
71. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
72. Texas Sedge
Carex texensis
73. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
74. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
75. Scaly Blazing Star
Liatris squarrosa
76. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
77. Carolina Wild Petunia
Ruellia caroliniensis
78. Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Lysimachia lanceolata
79. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
80. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
81. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
82. Canadian White Violet
Viola canadensis
83. Late Purple Aster
Symphyotrichum patens
84. Broadleaf Sedge
Carex platyphylla
85. Blue Sedge
Carex glaucodea
86. Lance Selfheal
Prunella vulgaris var. lanceolata
87. Downy Rattlesnake Plantain
Goodyera pubescens
88. Greater Bladder Sedge
Carex intumescens
89. Smooth Wild Petunia
Ruellia strepens
90. American Dittany
Cunila origanoides
91. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
92. Hairy Solomon’s Seal
Polygonatum pubescens
93. Violet Wood-Sorrel
Oxalis violacea
94. Narrowleaf Vervain
Verbena simplex
95. Blue Ridge Blueberry
Vaccinium pallidum
96. Eastern Gray Beardtongue
Penstemon canescens
97. Early Blue Violet
Viola palmata
98. Hairy Lespedeza
Lespedeza hirta
99. Hoary Puccoon
Lithospermum canescens
100. Long-Leaved Bluet
Houstonia longifolia
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