This list shows 81 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. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
10. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
11. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
12. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
13. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
14. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
15. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
16. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
17. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
18. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
19. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
20. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
21. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
22. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
23. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
24. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
25. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
26. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
27. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
28. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
29. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
30. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
31. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
32. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
33. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
34. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
35. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
36. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
37. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
38. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
39. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
40. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
41. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
42. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
43. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
44. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
45. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
46. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
47. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
48. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
49. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
50. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
51. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
52. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
53. Prairie Sundrops
Oenothera pilosella
54. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
55. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
56. Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Lysimachia lanceolata
57. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
58. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
59. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
60. Whorled Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum verticillatum
61. Blue Sedge
Carex glaucodea
62. Lance Selfheal
Prunella vulgaris var. lanceolata
63. Downy Rattlesnake Plantain
Goodyera pubescens
64. Smooth Wild Petunia
Ruellia strepens
65. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
66. Narrowleaf Vervain
Verbena simplex
67. Early Blue Violet
Viola palmata
68. Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolia
69. Hoary Puccoon
Lithospermum canescens
70. White Bear Sedge
Carex albursina
71. Downy Phlox
Phlox pilosa
72. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
73. Pointed Broom Sedge
Carex scoparia
74. Crested Sedge
Carex cristatella
75. Tall Cinquefoil
Drymocallis arguta
76. Leavenworth’s Sedge
Carex leavenworthii
77. Prairie Fleabane
Erigeron strigosus
78. Pennsylvania Blackberry
Rubus ×pensilvanicus
79. Greater Straw Sedge
Carex normalis
80. Common Yellow Woodsorrel
Oxalis stricta
81. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
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