This list shows 118 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. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
5. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
6. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
7. Chives
Allium schoenoprasum
8. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
9. Shrubby Cinquefoil
Dasiphora fruticosa
10. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
11. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
12. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
13. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
14. American Alumroot
Heuchera americana
15. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
16. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
17. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
18. Bunchberry Dogwood
Cornus canadensis
19. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
20. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
21. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
22. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
23. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
24. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
25. Hairy Beardtongue
Penstemon hirsutus
26. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
27. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
28. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
29. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
30. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
31. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
32. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
33. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
34. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
35. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
36. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
37. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
38. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
39. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
40. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
41. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
42. Narrowleaf Evening Primrose
Oenothera fruticosa
43. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
44. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
45. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
46. Celandine Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum
47. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
48. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
49. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
50. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
51. Plantainleaf Sedge
Carex plantaginea
52. Horseflyweed
Baptisia tinctoria
53. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
54. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
55. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
56. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
57. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
58. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
59. Sand Cherry
Prunus pumila
60. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
61. Purple-Flowering Raspberry
Rubus odoratus
62. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
63. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
64. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
65. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
66. Low Serviceberry
Amelanchier spicata
67. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
68. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
69. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
70. Prairie Sundrops
Oenothera pilosella
71. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
72. Common Juniper
Juniperus communis var. depressa
73. Marsh Blue Violet
Viola cucullata
74. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
75. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
76. Whorled Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum verticillatum
77. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
78. Canadian White Violet
Viola canadensis
79. Wild Sarsaparilla
Aralia nudicaulis
80. Canada Mayflower
Maianthemum canadense
81. Downy Rattlesnake Plantain
Goodyera pubescens
82. Greater Bladder Sedge
Carex intumescens
83. Parlin’s Pussytoes
Antennaria parlinii
84. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
85. Hairy Solomon’s Seal
Polygonatum pubescens
86. Narrowleaf Vervain
Verbena simplex
87. Blue Ridge Blueberry
Vaccinium pallidum
88. Woodbine
Parthenocissus vitacea
89. Slender Lespedeza
Lespedeza virginica
90. Early Blue Violet
Viola palmata
91. Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolia
92. Hairy Lespedeza
Lespedeza hirta
93. Sweet White Violet
Viola blanda
94. Hoary Puccoon
Lithospermum canescens
95. White Bear Sedge
Carex albursina
96. Running Strawberry Bush
Euonymus obovatus
97. Downy Wood Mint
Blephilia ciliata
98. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
99. Pointed Broom Sedge
Carex scoparia
100. Crested Sedge
Carex cristatella
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