This list shows 77 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. Northern Sea Oats
Chasmanthium latifolium
4. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
5. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
6. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
7. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
8. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
9. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
10. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
11. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
12. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
13. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
14. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
15. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
16. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
17. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
18. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
19. Azure Blue Sage
Salvia azurea
20. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
21. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
22. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
23. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
24. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
25. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
26. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
27. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
28. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
29. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
30. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
31. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
32. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
33. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
34. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
35. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
36. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
37. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
38. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
39. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
40. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
41. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
42. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
43. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
44. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
45. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
46. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
47. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
48. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
49. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
50. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
51. Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Lysimachia lanceolata
52. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
53. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
54. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
55. Longbract Spiderwort
Tradescantia bracteata
56. Whorled Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum verticillatum
57. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
58. Smooth Wild Petunia
Ruellia strepens
59. Parlin’s Pussytoes
Antennaria parlinii
60. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
61. Slender Lespedeza
Lespedeza virginica
62. Early Blue Violet
Viola palmata
63. Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolia
64. Hoary Puccoon
Lithospermum canescens
65. White Bear Sedge
Carex albursina
66. Downy Wood Mint
Blephilia ciliata
67. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
68. Pointed Broom Sedge
Carex scoparia
69. Crested Sedge
Carex cristatella
70. Leavenworth’s Sedge
Carex leavenworthii
71. Northern Dewberry
Rubus flagellaris
72. Bur-Reed Sedge
Carex sparganioides
73. Pubescent Sedge
Carex hirtifolia
74. Pennsylvania Blackberry
Rubus ×pensilvanicus
75. Shortbeak Sedge
Carex brevior
76. Greater Straw Sedge
Carex normalis
77. Summer Grape
Vitis aestivalis
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