This list shows 113 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. Trumpet Honeysuckle
Lonicera sempervirens
9. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
10. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
11. Mealycup Sage
Salvia farinacea
12. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
13. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
14. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
15. Purple Poppymallow
Callirhoe involucrata
16. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
17. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
18. Pinkladies
Oenothera speciosa
19. Indian Blanket
Gaillardia pulchella
20. Plains Coreopsis
Coreopsis tinctoria
21. Azure Blue Sage
Salvia azurea
22. Graceful Spurge
Euphorbia hypericifolia
23. Yellow Wild Indigo
Baptisia sphaerocarpa
24. Buffalograss
Bouteloua dactyloides
25. Lindheimer’s Beeblossom
Oenothera lindheimeri
26. Texas Bluebonnet
Lupinus texensis
27. Rose Mock Vervain
Glandularia canadensis
28. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
29. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
30. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
31. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
32. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
33. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
34. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
35. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
36. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
37. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
38. Bigfruit Evening Primrose
Oenothera macrocarpa
39. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
40. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
41. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
42. Lyreleaf Sage
Salvia lyrata
43. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
44. Bigfruit Evening Primrose
Oenothera macrocarpa subsp. macrocarpa
45. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
46. Maximilian Sunflower
Helianthus maximiliani
47. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
48. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
49. Berlandier’s Sundrops
Oenothera berlandieri
50. Blackfoot Daisy
Melampodium leucanthum
51. Cherokee Sedge
Carex cherokeensis
52. Lemon Beebalm
Monarda citriodora
53. Roundleaf Ragwort
Packera obovata
54. Ozark Bluestar
Amsonia illustris
55. Blue Wood Sedge
Carex flaccosperma
56. Fringed Bluestar
Amsonia ciliata
57. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
58. Eastern Bluestar
Amsonia tabernaemontana var. salicifolia
59. Dakota Mock Vervain
Glandularia bipinnatifida
60. Prairie Lily
Zephyranthes drummondii
61. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
62. Lanceleaf Blanketflower
Gaillardia aestivalis
63. Dotted Blazing Star
Liatris punctata
64. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
65. Texas Sedge
Carex texensis
66. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
67. Scaly Blazing Star
Liatris squarrosa
68. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
69. Turk’s Cap
Malvaviscus arboreus var. drummondii
70. Blue Wild Indigo
Baptisia minor
71. Largeflower Fameflower
Phemeranthus calycinus
72. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
73. Late Purple Aster
Symphyotrichum patens
74. Four-Nerve Daisy
Tetraneuris scaposa
75. Plains Pricklypear
Opuntia macrorhiza
76. Smooth Wild Petunia
Ruellia strepens
77. Parlin’s Pussytoes
Antennaria parlinii
78. St. Andrew’s Cross
Hypericum hypericoides
79. Texas Blazing Star
Liatris mucronata
80. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
81. Violet Wood-Sorrel
Oxalis violacea
82. Slender Lespedeza
Lespedeza virginica
83. Jersey Tea
Ceanothus herbaceus
84. Hairy Lespedeza
Lespedeza hirta
85. Straggler Daisy
Calyptocarpus vialis
86. Narrowleaf Stoneseed
Lithospermum incisum
87. Sidebeak Pencilflower
Stylosanthes biflora
88. Shaggy Dwarf Morning-Glory
Evolvulus nuttallianus
89. Snake Herb
Dyschoriste linearis
90. Violet Wild Petunia
Ruellia nudiflora
91. Light Poppymallow
Callirhoe alcaeoides
92. Dotted Blazing Star
Liatris punctata var. mucronata
93. Berlandier’s Yellow Flax
Linum berlandieri
94. Fleur Petard
Ruellia ciliatiflora
95. Tenpetal Thimbleweed
Anemone berlandieri
96. Creek Sedge
Carex amphibola
97. Downy Phlox
Phlox pilosa
98. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
99. Engelmann’s Pricklypear
Opuntia engelmannii
100. Leavenworth’s Sedge
Carex leavenworthii
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