This list shows 144 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. Butterfly Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa
4. Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
5. Northern Sea Oats
Chasmanthium latifolium
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. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
12. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
13. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
14. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
15. American Alumroot
Heuchera americana
16. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
17. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
18. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
19. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
20. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
21. Dwarf Crested Iris
Iris cristata
22. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
23. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
24. Marginal Wood Fern
Dryopteris marginalis
25. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
26. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
27. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
28. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
29. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
30. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
31. Plains Coreopsis
Coreopsis tinctoria
32. Azure Blue Sage
Salvia azurea
33. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
34. Rose Mock Vervain
Glandularia canadensis
35. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
36. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
37. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
38. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
39. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
40. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
41. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
42. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
43. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
44. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
45. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
46. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
47. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
48. Maypop
Passiflora incarnata
49. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
50. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
51. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
52. Bigfruit Evening Primrose
Oenothera macrocarpa
53. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
54. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
55. Celandine Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum
56. Eastern Beebalm
Monarda bradburiana
57. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
58. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
59. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
60. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
61. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
62. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
63. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
64. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
65. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
66. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
67. Lemon Beebalm
Monarda citriodora
68. Roundleaf Ragwort
Packera obovata
69. Ozark Bluestar
Amsonia illustris
70. Blue Wood Sedge
Carex flaccosperma
71. Autumn Onion
Allium stellatum
72. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
73. Eastern Bluestar
Amsonia tabernaemontana var. salicifolia
74. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
75. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
76. Cleft Phlox
Phlox bifida
77. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
78. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
79. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
80. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
81. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
82. Hairy Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum pilosum
83. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
84. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
85. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
86. Texas Sedge
Carex texensis
87. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
88. Prairie Sundrops
Oenothera pilosella
89. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
90. Scaly Blazing Star
Liatris squarrosa
91. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
92. Missouri Coneflower
Rudbeckia missouriensis
93. Marsh Blue Violet
Viola cucullata
94. Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Lysimachia lanceolata
95. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
96. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
97. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
98. American Beakgrain
Diarrhena obovata
99. Whorled Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum verticillatum
100. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
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