This list shows 141 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. Creeping Juniper
Juniperus horizontalis
3. Butterfly Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa
4. Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
5. Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
6. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
7. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
8. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
9. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
10. Shrubby Cinquefoil
Dasiphora fruticosa
11. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
12. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
13. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
14. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
15. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
16. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
17. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
18. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
19. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
20. Bunchberry Dogwood
Cornus canadensis
21. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
22. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
23. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
24. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
25. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
26. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
27. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
28. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
29. Rocky Mountain Blazing Star
Liatris ligulistylis
30. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
31. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
32. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
33. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
34. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
35. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
36. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
37. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
38. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
39. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
40. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
41. Bluebell Bellflower
Campanula rotundifolia
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. Old Man’s Whiskers
Geum triflorum
48. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
49. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
50. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
51. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
52. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
53. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
54. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
55. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
56. Kalm’s St. John’s Wort
Hypericum kalmianum
57. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
58. Sweet Fern
Comptonia peregrina
59. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
60. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
61. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
62. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
63. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
64. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
65. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
66. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
67. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
68. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
69. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
70. Large Beardtongue
Penstemon grandiflorus
71. Autumn Onion
Allium stellatum
72. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
73. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
74. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
75. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
76. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
77. Purple-Flowering Raspberry
Rubus odoratus
78. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
79. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
80. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
81. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
82. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
83. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
84. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
85. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
86. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
87. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
88. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
89. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
90. Western Silver Aster
Symphyotrichum sericeum
91. Prairie Sundrops
Oenothera pilosella
92. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
93. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
94. Common Juniper
Juniperus communis var. depressa
95. Marsh Blue Violet
Viola cucullata
96. Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Lysimachia lanceolata
97. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
98. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
99. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
100. American Beakgrain
Diarrhena obovata
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