This list shows 117 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. Creeping Juniper
Juniperus horizontalis
3. Butterfly Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa
4. Anise Hyssop
Agastache foeniculum
5. Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
6. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
7. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
8. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
9. Chives
Allium schoenoprasum
10. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
11. Shrubby Cinquefoil
Dasiphora fruticosa
12. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
13. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
14. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
15. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
16. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
17. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
18. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
19. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
20. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
21. Bunchberry Dogwood
Cornus canadensis
22. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
23. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
24. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
25. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
26. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
27. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
28. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
29. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
30. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
31. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
32. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
33. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
34. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
35. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
36. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
37. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
38. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
39. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
40. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
41. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
42. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
43. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
44. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
45. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
46. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
47. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
48. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
49. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
50. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
51. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
52. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
53. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
54. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
55. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
56. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
57. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
58. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
59. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
60. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
61. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
62. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
63. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
64. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
65. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
66. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
67. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
68. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
69. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
70. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
71. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
72. Low Serviceberry
Amelanchier spicata
73. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
74. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
75. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
76. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
77. Prairie Sundrops
Oenothera pilosella
78. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
79. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
80. Common Juniper
Juniperus communis var. depressa
81. Marsh Blue Violet
Viola cucullata
82. Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Lysimachia lanceolata
83. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
84. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
85. Canadian White Violet
Viola canadensis
86. Wild Sarsaparilla
Aralia nudicaulis
87. Canada Mayflower
Maianthemum canadense
88. Prairie Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium campestre
89. Downy Rattlesnake Plantain
Goodyera pubescens
90. Greater Bladder Sedge
Carex intumescens
91. Parlin’s Pussytoes
Antennaria parlinii
92. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
93. Hairy Solomon’s Seal
Polygonatum pubescens
94. Woodbine
Parthenocissus vitacea
95. Jersey Tea
Ceanothus herbaceus
96. Early Blue Violet
Viola palmata
97. Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolia
98. Sweet White Violet
Viola blanda
99. Hoary Puccoon
Lithospermum canescens
100. Rock Polypody
Polypodium virginianum
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