This list shows 114 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. Large-Flowered Tickseed
Coreopsis grandiflora
8. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
9. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
10. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
11. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
12. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
13. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
14. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
15. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
16. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
17. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
18. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
19. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
20. Purple Poppymallow
Callirhoe involucrata
21. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
22. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
23. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
24. Pinkladies
Oenothera speciosa
25. Plains Coreopsis
Coreopsis tinctoria
26. Azure Blue Sage
Salvia azurea
27. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
28. Buffalograss
Bouteloua dactyloides
29. Rose Mock Vervain
Glandularia canadensis
30. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
31. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
32. Blue Grama
Bouteloua gracilis
33. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
34. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
35. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
36. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
37. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
38. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
39. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
40. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
41. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
42. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
43. Bigfruit Evening Primrose
Oenothera macrocarpa
44. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
45. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
46. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
47. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
48. Bigfruit Evening Primrose
Oenothera macrocarpa subsp. macrocarpa
49. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
50. Maximilian Sunflower
Helianthus maximiliani
51. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
52. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
53. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
54. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
55. Lemon Beebalm
Monarda citriodora
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. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
62. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
63. Dotted Blazing Star
Liatris punctata
64. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
65. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
66. Texas Sedge
Carex texensis
67. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
68. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
69. Western Silver Aster
Symphyotrichum sericeum
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. Slender Lespedeza
Lespedeza virginica
89. Jersey Tea
Ceanothus herbaceus
90. Early Blue Violet
Viola palmata
91. Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolia
92. Hoary Puccoon
Lithospermum canescens
93. Narrowleaf Stoneseed
Lithospermum incisum
94. Shaggy Dwarf Morning-Glory
Evolvulus nuttallianus
95. Man Of The Earth
Ipomoea pandurata
96. Light Poppymallow
Callirhoe alcaeoides
97. Northern Bog Violet
Viola pratincola
98. Downy Phlox
Phlox pilosa
99. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
100. Crested Sedge
Carex cristatella
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