This list shows 150 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. Creeping Juniper
Juniperus horizontalis
3. Butterfly Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa
4. Anise Hyssop
Agastache foeniculum
5. Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
6. Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
7. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
8. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
9. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
10. Chives
Allium schoenoprasum
11. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
12. Shrubby Cinquefoil
Dasiphora fruticosa
13. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
14. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
15. Kinnikinnick
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
16. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
17. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
18. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
19. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
20. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
21. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
22. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
23. Bunchberry Dogwood
Cornus canadensis
24. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
25. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
26. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
27. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
28. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
29. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
30. Wild Sweetwilliam
Phlox maculata
31. Rocky Mountain Blazing Star
Liatris ligulistylis
32. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
33. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
34. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
35. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
36. Blue Grama
Bouteloua gracilis
37. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
38. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
39. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
40. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
41. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
42. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
43. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
44. Bluebell Bellflower
Campanula rotundifolia
45. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
46. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
47. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
48. Old Man’s Whiskers
Geum triflorum
49. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
50. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
51. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
52. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
53. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
54. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
55. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
56. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
57. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
58. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
59. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
60. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
61. Maximilian Sunflower
Helianthus maximiliani
62. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
63. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
64. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
65. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
66. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
67. Large Beardtongue
Penstemon grandiflorus
68. Autumn Onion
Allium stellatum
69. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
70. Hookedspur Violet
Viola adunca
71. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
72. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
73. Sand Cherry
Prunus pumila
74. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
75. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
76. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
77. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
78. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
79. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
80. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
81. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
82. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
83. Fringed Sagebrush
Artemisia frigida
84. Dotted Blazing Star
Liatris punctata
85. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
86. Low Serviceberry
Amelanchier spicata
87. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
88. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
89. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
90. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
91. Western Silver Aster
Symphyotrichum sericeum
92. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
93. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
94. Common Juniper
Juniperus communis var. depressa
95. Marsh Blue Violet
Viola cucullata
96. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
97. Western Snowberry
Symphoricarpos occidentalis
98. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
99. Longbract Spiderwort
Tradescantia bracteata
100. Largeleaf Avens
Geum macrophyllum
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