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. Little Bluestem
Schizachyrium scoparium
2. Butterfly Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa
3. Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
4. Northern Sea Oats
Chasmanthium latifolium
5. Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
6. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
7. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
8. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
9. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
10. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
11. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
12. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
13. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
14. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
15. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
16. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
17. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
18. Purple Poppymallow
Callirhoe involucrata
19. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
20. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
21. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
22. Pinkladies
Oenothera speciosa
23. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
24. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
25. Indian Blanket
Gaillardia pulchella
26. Plains Coreopsis
Coreopsis tinctoria
27. Azure Blue Sage
Salvia azurea
28. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
29. Buffalograss
Bouteloua dactyloides
30. Rose Mock Vervain
Glandularia canadensis
31. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
32. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
33. Blue Grama
Bouteloua gracilis
34. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
35. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
36. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
37. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
38. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
39. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
40. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
41. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
42. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
43. Bigfruit Evening Primrose
Oenothera macrocarpa
44. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
45. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
46. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
47. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
48. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
49. Bigfruit Evening Primrose
Oenothera macrocarpa subsp. macrocarpa
50. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
51. Maximilian Sunflower
Helianthus maximiliani
52. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
53. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
54. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
55. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
56. Roundleaf Ragwort
Packera obovata
57. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
58. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
59. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
60. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
61. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
62. Hairy Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum pilosum
63. Dotted Blazing Star
Liatris punctata
64. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
65. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
66. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
67. Texas Sedge
Carex texensis
68. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
69. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
70. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
71. Scaly Blazing Star
Liatris squarrosa
72. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
73. Blue Wild Indigo
Baptisia minor
74. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
75. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
76. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
77. Longbract Spiderwort
Tradescantia bracteata
78. American Beakgrain
Diarrhena obovata
79. Whorled Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum verticillatum
80. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
81. Prairie Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium campestre
82. Smooth Wild Petunia
Ruellia strepens
83. Parlin’s Pussytoes
Antennaria parlinii
84. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
85. Violet Wood-Sorrel
Oxalis violacea
86. Narrowleaf Vervain
Verbena simplex
87. Hairy Grama
Bouteloua hirsuta
88. Jersey Tea
Ceanothus herbaceus
89. Early Blue Violet
Viola palmata
90. Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolia
91. Hoary Puccoon
Lithospermum canescens
92. Narrowleaf Stoneseed
Lithospermum incisum
93. Shaggy Dwarf Morning-Glory
Evolvulus nuttallianus
94. Man Of The Earth
Ipomoea pandurata
95. Light Poppymallow
Callirhoe alcaeoides
96. White Bear Sedge
Carex albursina
97. Downy Phlox
Phlox pilosa
98. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
99. Pointed Broom Sedge
Carex scoparia
100. Crested Sedge
Carex cristatella
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