This list shows 115 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. Creeping Juniper
Juniperus horizontalis
4. Butterfly Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa
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. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
11. Shrubby Cinquefoil
Dasiphora fruticosa
12. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
13. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
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. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
20. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
21. Bunchberry Dogwood
Cornus canadensis
22. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
23. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
24. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
25. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
26. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
27. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
28. Hairy Beardtongue
Penstemon hirsutus
29. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
30. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
31. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
32. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
33. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
34. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
35. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
36. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
37. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
38. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
39. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
40. Bluebell Bellflower
Campanula rotundifolia
41. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
42. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
43. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
44. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
45. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
46. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
47. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
48. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
49. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
50. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
51. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
52. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
53. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
54. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
55. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
56. Plantainleaf Sedge
Carex plantaginea
57. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
58. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
59. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
60. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
61. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
62. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
63. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
64. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
65. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
66. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
67. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
68. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
69. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
70. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
71. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
72. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
73. Low Serviceberry
Amelanchier spicata
74. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
75. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
76. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
77. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
78. Prairie Sundrops
Oenothera pilosella
79. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
80. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
81. Common Juniper
Juniperus communis var. depressa
82. Marsh Blue Violet
Viola cucullata
83. Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Lysimachia lanceolata
84. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
85. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
86. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
87. Canadian White Violet
Viola canadensis
88. Wild Sarsaparilla
Aralia nudicaulis
89. Canada Mayflower
Maianthemum canadense
90. Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium montanum
91. Downy Rattlesnake Plantain
Goodyera pubescens
92. Greater Bladder Sedge
Carex intumescens
93. Parlin’s Pussytoes
Antennaria parlinii
94. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
95. Hairy Solomon’s Seal
Polygonatum pubescens
96. Woodbine
Parthenocissus vitacea
97. Jersey Tea
Ceanothus herbaceus
98. Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolia
99. Hoary Puccoon
Lithospermum canescens
100. Rock Polypody
Polypodium virginianum
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