This list shows 139 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. Butterfly Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa
3. Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
4. Northern Sea Oats
Chasmanthium latifolium
5. Hairawn Muhly
Muhlenbergia capillaris
6. Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
7. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
8. Large-Flowered Tickseed
Coreopsis grandiflora
9. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
10. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
11. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
12. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
13. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
14. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
15. American Alumroot
Heuchera americana
16. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
17. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
18. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
19. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
20. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
21. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
22. Marginal Wood Fern
Dryopteris marginalis
23. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
24. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
25. Pinkladies
Oenothera speciosa
26. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
27. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
28. Plains Coreopsis
Coreopsis tinctoria
29. Azure Blue Sage
Salvia azurea
30. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
31. Rose Mock Vervain
Glandularia canadensis
32. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
33. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
34. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
35. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
36. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
37. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
38. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
39. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
40. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
41. Maypop
Passiflora incarnata
42. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
43. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
44. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
45. Narrowleaf Evening Primrose
Oenothera fruticosa
46. Narrowleaf Evening Primrose
Oenothera fruticosa
47. Bigfruit Evening Primrose
Oenothera macrocarpa
48. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
49. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
50. Eastern Beebalm
Monarda bradburiana
51. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
52. Lyreleaf Sage
Salvia lyrata
53. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
54. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
55. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
56. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
57. Bigfruit Evening Primrose
Oenothera macrocarpa subsp. macrocarpa
58. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
59. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
60. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
61. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
62. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
63. Star Tickseed
Coreopsis pubescens
64. Roundleaf Ragwort
Packera obovata
65. Autumn Onion
Allium stellatum
66. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
67. Eastern Bluestar
Amsonia tabernaemontana var. salicifolia
68. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
69. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
70. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
71. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
72. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
73. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
74. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
75. Hairy Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum pilosum
76. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
77. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
78. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
79. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
80. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
81. Western Silver Aster
Symphyotrichum sericeum
82. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
83. Scaly Blazing Star
Liatris squarrosa
84. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
85. Missouri Coneflower
Rudbeckia missouriensis
86. Blue Wild Indigo
Baptisia minor
87. Largeflower Fameflower
Phemeranthus calycinus
88. Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Lysimachia lanceolata
89. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
90. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
91. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
92. Whorled Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum verticillatum
93. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
94. Late Purple Aster
Symphyotrichum patens
95. Prairie Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium campestre
96. Blue Sedge
Carex glaucodea
97. Lance Selfheal
Prunella vulgaris var. lanceolata
98. Downy Rattlesnake Plantain
Goodyera pubescens
99. Smooth Wild Petunia
Ruellia strepens
100. American Dittany
Cunila origanoides
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