This list shows 153 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. Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
6. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
7. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
8. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
9. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
10. Shrubby Cinquefoil
Dasiphora fruticosa
11. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
12. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
13. Kinnikinnick
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
14. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
15. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
16. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
17. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
18. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
19. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
20. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
21. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
22. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
23. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
24. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
25. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
26. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
27. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
28. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
29. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
30. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
31. Wild Sweetwilliam
Phlox maculata
32. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
33. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
34. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
35. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
36. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
37. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
38. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
39. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
40. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
41. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
42. Bluebell Bellflower
Campanula rotundifolia
43. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
44. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
45. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
46. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
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. Narrowleaf Evening Primrose
Oenothera fruticosa
55. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
56. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
57. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
58. Celandine Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum
59. Kalm’s St. John’s Wort
Hypericum kalmianum
60. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
61. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
62. Sweet Fern
Comptonia peregrina
63. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
64. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
65. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
66. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
67. Creeping Sedge
Carex laxiculmis
68. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
69. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
70. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
71. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
72. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
73. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
74. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
75. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
76. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
77. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
78. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
79. Sand Cherry
Prunus pumila
80. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
81. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
82. Purple-Flowering Raspberry
Rubus odoratus
83. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
84. Cleft Phlox
Phlox bifida
85. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
86. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
87. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
88. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
89. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
90. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
91. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
92. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
93. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
94. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
95. Western Silver Aster
Symphyotrichum sericeum
96. Prairie Sundrops
Oenothera pilosella
97. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
98. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
99. Common Juniper
Juniperus communis var. depressa
100. Marsh Blue Violet
Viola cucullata
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