This list shows 144 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. Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
7. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
8. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
9. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
10. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
11. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
12. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
13. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
14. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
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. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
23. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
24. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
25. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
26. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
27. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
28. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
29. Azure Blue Sage
Salvia azurea
30. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
31. Buffalograss
Bouteloua dactyloides
32. Rose Mock Vervain
Glandularia canadensis
33. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
34. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
35. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
36. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
37. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
38. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
39. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
40. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
41. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
42. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
43. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
44. Maypop
Passiflora incarnata
45. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
46. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
47. Bigfruit Evening Primrose
Oenothera macrocarpa
48. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
49. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
50. Celandine Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum
51. Eastern Beebalm
Monarda bradburiana
52. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
53. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
54. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
55. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
56. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
57. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
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. Lemon Beebalm
Monarda citriodora
64. Roundleaf Ragwort
Packera obovata
65. Ozark Bluestar
Amsonia illustris
66. Blue Wood Sedge
Carex flaccosperma
67. Autumn Onion
Allium stellatum
68. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
69. Eastern Bluestar
Amsonia tabernaemontana var. salicifolia
70. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
71. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
72. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
73. Cleft Phlox
Phlox bifida
74. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
75. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
76. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
77. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
78. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
79. Hairy Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum pilosum
80. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
81. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
82. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
83. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
84. Texas Sedge
Carex texensis
85. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
86. Prairie Sundrops
Oenothera pilosella
87. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
88. Scaly Blazing Star
Liatris squarrosa
89. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
90. Missouri Coneflower
Rudbeckia missouriensis
91. Blue Wild Indigo
Baptisia minor
92. Marsh Blue Violet
Viola cucullata
93. Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Lysimachia lanceolata
94. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
95. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
96. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
97. Longbract Spiderwort
Tradescantia bracteata
98. Whorled Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum verticillatum
99. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
100. Late Purple Aster
Symphyotrichum patens
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