This list shows 111 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. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
11. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
12. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
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. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
19. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
20. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
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. Azure Blue Sage
Salvia azurea
29. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
30. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
31. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
32. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
33. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
34. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
35. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
36. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
37. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
38. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
39. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
40. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
41. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
42. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
43. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
44. Celandine Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum
45. Woodland Stonecrop
Sedum ternatum
46. Eastern Beebalm
Monarda bradburiana
47. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
48. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
49. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
50. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
51. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
52. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
53. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
54. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
55. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
56. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
57. Roundleaf Ragwort
Packera obovata
58. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
59. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
60. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
61. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
62. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
63. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
64. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
65. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
66. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
67. Hairy Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum pilosum
68. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
69. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
70. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
71. Prairie Sundrops
Oenothera pilosella
72. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
73. Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Lysimachia lanceolata
74. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
75. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
76. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
77. American Beakgrain
Diarrhena obovata
78. Whorled Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum verticillatum
79. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
80. Wild Sarsaparilla
Aralia nudicaulis
81. Blue Sedge
Carex glaucodea
82. Lance Selfheal
Prunella vulgaris var. lanceolata
83. Downy Rattlesnake Plantain
Goodyera pubescens
84. Smooth Wild Petunia
Ruellia strepens
85. Parlin’s Pussytoes
Antennaria parlinii
86. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
87. Violet Wood-Sorrel
Oxalis violacea
88. Slender Lespedeza
Lespedeza virginica
89. Early Blue Violet
Viola palmata
90. Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolia
91. Hoary Puccoon
Lithospermum canescens
92. Man Of The Earth
Ipomoea pandurata
93. White Bear Sedge
Carex albursina
94. Running Strawberry Bush
Euonymus obovatus
95. Northern Bog Violet
Viola pratincola
96. Downy Phlox
Phlox pilosa
97. Downy Wood Mint
Blephilia ciliata
98. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
99. Crested Sedge
Carex cristatella
100. Tall Cinquefoil
Drymocallis arguta
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