This list shows 119 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. Anise Hyssop
Agastache foeniculum
4. Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
5. Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
6. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
7. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
8. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
9. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
10. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
11. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
12. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
13. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
14. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
15. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
16. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
17. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
18. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
19. Bunchberry Dogwood
Cornus canadensis
20. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
21. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
22. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
23. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
24. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
25. Wild Sweetwilliam
Phlox maculata
26. Rocky Mountain Blazing Star
Liatris ligulistylis
27. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
28. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
29. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
30. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
31. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
32. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
33. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
34. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
35. Bluebell Bellflower
Campanula rotundifolia
36. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
37. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
38. Old Man’s Whiskers
Geum triflorum
39. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
40. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
41. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
42. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
43. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
44. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
45. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
46. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
47. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
48. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
49. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
50. Maximilian Sunflower
Helianthus maximiliani
51. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
52. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
53. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
54. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
55. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
56. Large Beardtongue
Penstemon grandiflorus
57. Autumn Onion
Allium stellatum
58. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
59. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
60. Sand Cherry
Prunus pumila
61. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
62. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
63. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
64. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
65. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
66. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
67. Dotted Blazing Star
Liatris punctata
68. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
69. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
70. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
71. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
72. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
73. Western Silver Aster
Symphyotrichum sericeum
74. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
75. Common Juniper
Juniperus communis var. depressa
76. Marsh Blue Violet
Viola cucullata
77. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
78. Western Snowberry
Symphoricarpos occidentalis
79. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
80. Longbract Spiderwort
Tradescantia bracteata
81. Canadian White Violet
Viola canadensis
82. Wild Sarsaparilla
Aralia nudicaulis
83. Canada Mayflower
Maianthemum canadense
84. Prairie Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium campestre
85. Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium montanum
86. Plains Pricklypear
Opuntia macrorhiza
87. Downy Rattlesnake Plantain
Goodyera pubescens
88. Greater Bladder Sedge
Carex intumescens
89. Parlin’s Pussytoes
Antennaria parlinii
90. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
91. Hairy Solomon’s Seal
Polygonatum pubescens
92. Violet Wood-Sorrel
Oxalis violacea
93. Woodbine
Parthenocissus vitacea
94. Jersey Tea
Ceanothus herbaceus
95. Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolia
96. Hoary Puccoon
Lithospermum canescens
97. Rock Polypody
Polypodium virginianum
98. Narrowleaf Stoneseed
Lithospermum incisum
99. Long-Leaved Bluet
Houstonia longifolia
100. White Bear Sedge
Carex albursina
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