This list shows 172 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. Kinnikinnick
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
15. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
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. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
22. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
23. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
24. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
25. Marginal Wood Fern
Dryopteris marginalis
26. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
27. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
28. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
29. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
30. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
31. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
32. Hairy Beardtongue
Penstemon hirsutus
33. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
34. Wild Sweetwilliam
Phlox maculata
35. Rocky Mountain Blazing Star
Liatris ligulistylis
36. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
37. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
38. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
39. Tufted Hairgrass
Deschampsia cespitosa
40. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
41. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
42. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
43. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
44. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
45. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
46. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
47. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
48. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
49. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
50. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
51. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
52. Old Man’s Whiskers
Geum triflorum
53. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
54. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
55. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
56. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
57. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
58. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
59. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
60. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
61. Celandine Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum
62. Kalm’s St. John’s Wort
Hypericum kalmianum
63. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
64. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
65. Sweet Fern
Comptonia peregrina
66. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
67. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
68. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
69. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
70. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
71. Plantainleaf Sedge
Carex plantaginea
72. Creeping Sedge
Carex laxiculmis
73. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
74. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
75. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
76. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
77. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
78. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
79. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
80. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
81. Large Beardtongue
Penstemon grandiflorus
82. Autumn Onion
Allium stellatum
83. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
84. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
85. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
86. Sand Cherry
Prunus pumila
87. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
88. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
89. Purple-Flowering Raspberry
Rubus odoratus
90. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
91. Cleft Phlox
Phlox bifida
92. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
93. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
94. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
95. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
96. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
97. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
98. Hairy Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum pilosum
99. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
100. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
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