This list shows 143 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. Heartleaf Foamflower
Tiarella cordifolia
11. Chives
Allium schoenoprasum
12. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
13. Shrubby Cinquefoil
Dasiphora fruticosa
14. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
15. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
16. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
17. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
18. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
19. American Alumroot
Heuchera americana
20. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
21. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
22. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
23. Bunchberry Dogwood
Cornus canadensis
24. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
25. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
26. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
27. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
28. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
29. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
30. Hairy Beardtongue
Penstemon hirsutus
31. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
32. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
33. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
34. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
35. Tufted Hairgrass
Deschampsia cespitosa
36. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
37. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
38. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
39. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
40. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
41. Eastern Teaberry
Gaultheria procumbens
42. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
43. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
44. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
45. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
46. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
47. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
48. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
49. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
50. Narrowleaf Evening Primrose
Oenothera fruticosa
51. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
52. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
53. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
54. Celandine Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum
55. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
56. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
57. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
58. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
59. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
60. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
61. Plantainleaf Sedge
Carex plantaginea
62. Creeping Sedge
Carex laxiculmis
63. Horseflyweed
Baptisia tinctoria
64. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
65. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
66. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
67. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
68. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
69. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
70. Sand Cherry
Prunus pumila
71. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
72. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
73. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
74. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
75. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
76. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
77. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
78. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
79. Low Serviceberry
Amelanchier spicata
80. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
81. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
82. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
83. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
84. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
85. Common Juniper
Juniperus communis var. depressa
86. Marsh Blue Violet
Viola cucullata
87. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
88. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
89. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
90. American Beakgrain
Diarrhena obovata
91. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
92. Canadian White Violet
Viola canadensis
93. Wild Sarsaparilla
Aralia nudicaulis
94. Canada Mayflower
Maianthemum canadense
95. Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium montanum
96. Downy Rattlesnake Plantain
Goodyera pubescens
97. Little Evening Primrose
Oenothera perennis
98. Greater Bladder Sedge
Carex intumescens
99. Parlin’s Pussytoes
Antennaria parlinii
100. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
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