This list shows 125 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. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
5. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
6. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
7. Heartleaf Foamflower
Tiarella cordifolia
8. Chives
Allium schoenoprasum
9. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
10. Shrubby Cinquefoil
Dasiphora fruticosa
11. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
12. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
13. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
14. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
15. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
16. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
17. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
18. White Wood Aster
Eurybia divaricata
19. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
20. Marginal Wood Fern
Dryopteris marginalis
21. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
22. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
23. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
24. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
25. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
26. Hairy Beardtongue
Penstemon hirsutus
27. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
28. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
29. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
30. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
31. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
32. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
33. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
34. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
35. Eastern Teaberry
Gaultheria procumbens
36. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
37. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
38. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
39. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
40. Narrowleaf Evening Primrose
Oenothera fruticosa
41. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
42. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
43. Kalm’s St. John’s Wort
Hypericum kalmianum
44. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
45. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
46. Appalachian Sedge
Carex appalachica
47. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
48. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
49. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
50. Eastern Hay-Scented Fern
Dennstaedtia punctilobula
51. Plantainleaf Sedge
Carex plantaginea
52. Creeping Sedge
Carex laxiculmis
53. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
54. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
55. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
56. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
57. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
58. Sand Cherry
Prunus pumila
59. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
60. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
61. Purple-Flowering Raspberry
Rubus odoratus
62. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
63. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
64. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
65. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
66. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
67. Low Serviceberry
Amelanchier spicata
68. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
69. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
70. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
71. Prairie Sundrops
Oenothera pilosella
72. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
73. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
74. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
75. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
76. Whorled Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum verticillatum
77. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
78. Canadian White Violet
Viola canadensis
79. Wild Sarsaparilla
Aralia nudicaulis
80. Canada Mayflower
Maianthemum canadense
81. Broadleaf Sedge
Carex platyphylla
82. Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium montanum
83. Lance Selfheal
Prunella vulgaris var. lanceolata
84. Downy Rattlesnake Plantain
Goodyera pubescens
85. Little Evening Primrose
Oenothera perennis
86. Greater Bladder Sedge
Carex intumescens
87. Parlin’s Pussytoes
Antennaria parlinii
88. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
89. Hairy Solomon’s Seal
Polygonatum pubescens
90. Narrowleaf Vervain
Verbena simplex
91. Blue Ridge Blueberry
Vaccinium pallidum
92. Woodbine
Parthenocissus vitacea
93. Early Blue Violet
Viola palmata
94. Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolia
95. Hairy Lespedeza
Lespedeza hirta
96. Sweet White Violet
Viola blanda
97. Rock Polypody
Polypodium virginianum
98. Long-Leaved Bluet
Houstonia longifolia
99. White Bear Sedge
Carex albursina
100. Running Strawberry Bush
Euonymus obovatus
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