This list shows 147 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. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
21. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
22. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
23. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
24. Marginal Wood Fern
Dryopteris marginalis
25. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
26. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
27. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
28. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
29. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
30. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
31. Hairy Beardtongue
Penstemon hirsutus
32. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
33. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
34. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
35. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
36. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
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. Kalm’s St. John’s Wort
Hypericum kalmianum
59. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
60. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
61. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
62. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
63. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
64. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
65. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
66. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
67. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
68. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
69. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
70. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
71. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
72. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
73. Large Beardtongue
Penstemon grandiflorus
74. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
75. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
76. Sand Cherry
Prunus pumila
77. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
78. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
79. Purple-Flowering Raspberry
Rubus odoratus
80. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
81. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
82. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
83. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
84. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
85. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
86. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
87. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
88. Low Serviceberry
Amelanchier spicata
89. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
90. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
91. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
92. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
93. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
94. Western Silver Aster
Symphyotrichum sericeum
95. Prairie Sundrops
Oenothera pilosella
96. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
97. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
98. Common Juniper
Juniperus communis var. depressa
99. Marsh Blue Violet
Viola cucullata
100. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
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