This list shows 138 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. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
9. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
10. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
11. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
12. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
13. American Alumroot
Heuchera americana
14. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
15. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
16. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
17. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
18. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
19. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
20. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
21. Purple Poppymallow
Callirhoe involucrata
22. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
23. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
24. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
25. Pinkladies
Oenothera speciosa
26. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
27. Plains Coreopsis
Coreopsis tinctoria
28. Azure Blue Sage
Salvia azurea
29. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
30. Rose Mock Vervain
Glandularia canadensis
31. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
32. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
33. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
34. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
35. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
36. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
37. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
38. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
39. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
40. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
41. Maypop
Passiflora incarnata
42. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
43. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
44. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
45. Narrowleaf Evening Primrose
Oenothera fruticosa
46. Narrowleaf Evening Primrose
Oenothera fruticosa
47. Bigfruit Evening Primrose
Oenothera macrocarpa
48. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
49. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
50. Celandine Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum
51. Woodland Stonecrop
Sedum ternatum
52. Eastern Beebalm
Monarda bradburiana
53. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
54. Lyreleaf Sage
Salvia lyrata
55. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
56. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
57. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
58. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
59. Bigfruit Evening Primrose
Oenothera macrocarpa subsp. macrocarpa
60. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
61. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
62. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
63. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
64. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
65. Star Tickseed
Coreopsis pubescens
66. Roundleaf Ragwort
Packera obovata
67. Autumn Onion
Allium stellatum
68. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
69. Eastern Bluestar
Amsonia tabernaemontana var. salicifolia
70. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
71. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
72. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
73. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
74. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
75. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
76. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
77. Hairy Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum pilosum
78. Dotted Blazing Star
Liatris punctata
79. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
80. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
81. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
82. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
83. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
84. Scaly Blazing Star
Liatris squarrosa
85. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
86. Blue Wild Indigo
Baptisia minor
87. Largeflower Fameflower
Phemeranthus calycinus
88. Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Lysimachia lanceolata
89. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
90. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
91. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
92. Whorled Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum verticillatum
93. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
94. Late Purple Aster
Symphyotrichum patens
95. Prairie Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium campestre
96. Blue Sedge
Carex glaucodea
97. Plains Pricklypear
Opuntia macrorhiza
98. Lance Selfheal
Prunella vulgaris var. lanceolata
99. Smooth Wild Petunia
Ruellia strepens
100. American Dittany
Cunila origanoides
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