This list shows 118 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. Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
6. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
7. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
8. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
9. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
10. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
11. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
12. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
13. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
14. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
15. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
16. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
17. Purple Poppymallow
Callirhoe involucrata
18. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
19. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
20. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
21. Pinkladies
Oenothera speciosa
22. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
23. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
24. Indian Blanket
Gaillardia pulchella
25. Plains Coreopsis
Coreopsis tinctoria
26. Azure Blue Sage
Salvia azurea
27. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
28. Rose Mock Vervain
Glandularia canadensis
29. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
30. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
31. Blue Grama
Bouteloua gracilis
32. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
33. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
34. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
35. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
36. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
37. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
38. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
39. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
40. Bigfruit Evening Primrose
Oenothera macrocarpa
41. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
42. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
43. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
44. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
45. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
46. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
47. Bigfruit Evening Primrose
Oenothera macrocarpa subsp. macrocarpa
48. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
49. Maximilian Sunflower
Helianthus maximiliani
50. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
51. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
52. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
53. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
54. Lemon Beebalm
Monarda citriodora
55. Roundleaf Ragwort
Packera obovata
56. Ozark Bluestar
Amsonia illustris
57. Blue Wood Sedge
Carex flaccosperma
58. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
59. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
60. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
61. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
62. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
63. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
64. Hairy Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum pilosum
65. Dotted Blazing Star
Liatris punctata
66. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
67. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
68. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
69. Texas Sedge
Carex texensis
70. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
71. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
72. Western Silver Aster
Symphyotrichum sericeum
73. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
74. Scaly Blazing Star
Liatris squarrosa
75. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
76. Blue Wild Indigo
Baptisia minor
77. Largeflower Fameflower
Phemeranthus calycinus
78. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
79. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
80. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
81. Longbract Spiderwort
Tradescantia bracteata
82. Whorled Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum verticillatum
83. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
84. Late Purple Aster
Symphyotrichum patens
85. Prairie Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium campestre
86. Smooth Wild Petunia
Ruellia strepens
87. Parlin’s Pussytoes
Antennaria parlinii
88. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
89. Violet Wood-Sorrel
Oxalis violacea
90. Narrowleaf Vervain
Verbena simplex
91. Slender Lespedeza
Lespedeza virginica
92. Jersey Tea
Ceanothus herbaceus
93. Early Blue Violet
Viola palmata
94. Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolia
95. Hoary Puccoon
Lithospermum canescens
96. Narrowleaf Stoneseed
Lithospermum incisum
97. Shaggy Dwarf Morning-Glory
Evolvulus nuttallianus
98. Light Poppymallow
Callirhoe alcaeoides
99. White Bear Sedge
Carex albursina
100. Creek Sedge
Carex amphibola
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