This list shows 76 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. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
5. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
6. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
7. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
8. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
9. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
10. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
11. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
12. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
13. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
14. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
15. Purple Poppymallow
Callirhoe involucrata
16. Indian Blanket
Gaillardia pulchella
17. Plains Coreopsis
Coreopsis tinctoria
18. Azure Blue Sage
Salvia azurea
19. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
20. Buffalograss
Bouteloua dactyloides
21. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
22. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
23. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
24. Blue Grama
Bouteloua gracilis
25. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
26. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
27. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
28. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
29. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
30. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
31. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
32. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
33. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
34. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
35. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
36. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
37. Maximilian Sunflower
Helianthus maximiliani
38. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
39. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
40. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
41. Large Beardtongue
Penstemon grandiflorus
42. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
43. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
44. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
45. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
46. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
47. Dotted Blazing Star
Liatris punctata
48. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
49. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
50. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
51. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
52. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
53. Western Silver Aster
Symphyotrichum sericeum
54. Western Snowberry
Symphoricarpos occidentalis
55. Longbract Spiderwort
Tradescantia bracteata
56. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
57. Prairie Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium campestre
58. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
59. Violet Wood-Sorrel
Oxalis violacea
60. Jersey Tea
Ceanothus herbaceus
61. Early Blue Violet
Viola palmata
62. Hoary Puccoon
Lithospermum canescens
63. Narrowleaf Stoneseed
Lithospermum incisum
64. White Bear Sedge
Carex albursina
65. Downy Phlox
Phlox pilosa
66. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
67. Crested Sedge
Carex cristatella
68. Tall Cinquefoil
Drymocallis arguta
69. Leavenworth’s Sedge
Carex leavenworthii
70. Prairie Ragwort
Packera plattensis
71. Whitemouth Dayflower
Commelina erecta
72. Bur-Reed Sedge
Carex sparganioides
73. Prairie Fleabane
Erigeron strigosus
74. Cutleaf Evening Primrose
Oenothera laciniata
75. Shortbeak Sedge
Carex brevior
76. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
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