This list shows 80 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. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
7. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
8. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
9. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
10. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
11. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
12. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
13. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
14. Dwarf Crested Iris
Iris cristata
15. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
16. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
17. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
18. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
19. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
20. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
21. Allegheny Spurge
Pachysandra procumbens
22. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
23. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
24. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
25. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
26. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
27. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
28. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
29. Maypop
Passiflora incarnata
30. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
31. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
32. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
33. Celandine Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum
34. Woodland Stonecrop
Sedum ternatum
35. Eastern Beebalm
Monarda bradburiana
36. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
37. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
38. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
39. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
40. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
41. Star Tickseed
Coreopsis pubescens
42. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
43. Eastern Bluestar
Amsonia tabernaemontana var. salicifolia
44. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
45. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
46. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
47. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
48. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
49. Texas Sedge
Carex texensis
50. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
51. Scaly Blazing Star
Liatris squarrosa
52. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
53. Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Lysimachia lanceolata
54. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
55. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
56. Whorled Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum verticillatum
57. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
58. Late Purple Aster
Symphyotrichum patens
59. Blue Sedge
Carex glaucodea
60. Downy Rattlesnake Plantain
Goodyera pubescens
61. Smooth Wild Petunia
Ruellia strepens
62. American Dittany
Cunila origanoides
63. Narrowleaf Vervain
Verbena simplex
64. Slender Lespedeza
Lespedeza virginica
65. Early Blue Violet
Viola palmata
66. Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolia
67. Hairy Lespedeza
Lespedeza hirta
68. Hoary Puccoon
Lithospermum canescens
69. Rock Polypody
Polypodium virginianum
70. Man Of The Earth
Ipomoea pandurata
71. White Bear Sedge
Carex albursina
72. Creek Sedge
Carex amphibola
73. Downy Wood Mint
Blephilia ciliata
74. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
75. Leavenworth’s Sedge
Carex leavenworthii
76. Northern Dewberry
Rubus flagellaris
77. Pennsylvania Blackberry
Rubus ×pensilvanicus
78. Greater Straw Sedge
Carex normalis
79. Orangegrass
Hypericum gentianoides
80. Summer Grape
Vitis aestivalis
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