This list shows 100 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. Northern Sea Oats
Chasmanthium latifolium
5. Hairawn Muhly
Muhlenbergia capillaris
6. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
7. Large-Flowered Tickseed
Coreopsis grandiflora
8. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
9. Trumpet Honeysuckle
Lonicera sempervirens
10. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
11. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
12. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
13. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
14. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
15. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
16. Purple Poppymallow
Callirhoe involucrata
17. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
18. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
19. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
20. Pinkladies
Oenothera speciosa
21. Indian Blanket
Gaillardia pulchella
22. Plains Coreopsis
Coreopsis tinctoria
23. Azure Blue Sage
Salvia azurea
24. Rose Mock Vervain
Glandularia canadensis
25. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
26. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
27. Blue Grama
Bouteloua gracilis
28. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
29. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
30. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
31. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
32. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
33. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
34. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
35. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
36. Maypop
Passiflora incarnata
37. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
38. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
39. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
40. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
41. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
42. Lyreleaf Sage
Salvia lyrata
43. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
44. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
45. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
46. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
47. Maximilian Sunflower
Helianthus maximiliani
48. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
49. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
50. Cherokee Sedge
Carex cherokeensis
51. Lemon Beebalm
Monarda citriodora
52. Star Tickseed
Coreopsis pubescens
53. Roundleaf Ragwort
Packera obovata
54. Blue Wood Sedge
Carex flaccosperma
55. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
56. Eastern Bluestar
Amsonia tabernaemontana var. salicifolia
57. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
58. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
59. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
60. Lanceleaf Blanketflower
Gaillardia aestivalis
61. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
62. Scaly Blazing Star
Liatris squarrosa
63. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
64. Blue Wild Indigo
Baptisia minor
65. Largeflower Fameflower
Phemeranthus calycinus
66. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
67. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
68. Late Purple Aster
Symphyotrichum patens
69. Prairie Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium campestre
70. Plains Pricklypear
Opuntia macrorhiza
71. Smooth Wild Petunia
Ruellia strepens
72. Parlin’s Pussytoes
Antennaria parlinii
73. St. Andrew’s Cross
Hypericum hypericoides
74. Fringed Poppy Mallow
Callirhoe digitata
75. Violet Wood-Sorrel
Oxalis violacea
76. Narrowleaf Vervain
Verbena simplex
77. Hairy Grama
Bouteloua hirsuta
78. Slender Lespedeza
Lespedeza virginica
79. Jersey Tea
Ceanothus herbaceus
80. Early Blue Violet
Viola palmata
81. Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolia
82. Hairy Lespedeza
Lespedeza hirta
83. Narrowleaf Stoneseed
Lithospermum incisum
84. Sidebeak Pencilflower
Stylosanthes biflora
85. Shaggy Dwarf Morning-Glory
Evolvulus nuttallianus
86. Man Of The Earth
Ipomoea pandurata
87. Light Poppymallow
Callirhoe alcaeoides
88. Downy Phlox
Phlox pilosa
89. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
90. Leavenworth’s Sedge
Carex leavenworthii
91. Prairie Ragwort
Packera plattensis
92. Whitemouth Dayflower
Commelina erecta
93. Northern Dewberry
Rubus flagellaris
94. Prairie Fleabane
Erigeron strigosus
95. Cutleaf Evening Primrose
Oenothera laciniata
96. Shortbeak Sedge
Carex brevior
97. Kiss Me Quick
Portulaca pilosa
98. Summer Grape
Vitis aestivalis
99. Common Yellow Woodsorrel
Oxalis stricta
100. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
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