This list shows 169 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. 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. Wild Sweetwilliam
Phlox maculata
35. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
36. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
37. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
38. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
39. Tufted Hairgrass
Deschampsia cespitosa
40. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
41. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
42. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
43. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
44. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
45. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
46. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
47. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
48. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
49. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
50. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
51. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
52. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
53. Old Man’s Whiskers
Geum triflorum
54. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
55. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
56. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
57. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
58. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
59. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
60. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
61. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
62. Kalm’s St. John’s Wort
Hypericum kalmianum
63. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
64. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
65. Sweet Fern
Comptonia peregrina
66. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
67. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
68. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
69. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
70. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
71. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
72. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
73. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
74. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
75. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
76. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
77. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
78. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
79. Large Beardtongue
Penstemon grandiflorus
80. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
81. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
82. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
83. Sand Cherry
Prunus pumila
84. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
85. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
86. Purple-Flowering Raspberry
Rubus odoratus
87. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
88. Cleft Phlox
Phlox bifida
89. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
90. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
91. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
92. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
93. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
94. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
95. Hairy Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum pilosum
96. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
97. Low Serviceberry
Amelanchier spicata
98. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
99. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
100. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
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