This list shows 117 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. Hairawn Muhly
Muhlenbergia capillaris
6. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
7. Large-Flowered Tickseed
Coreopsis grandiflora
8. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
9. Trumpet Honeysuckle
Lonicera sempervirens
10. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
11. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
12. American Alumroot
Heuchera americana
13. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
14. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
15. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
16. Clustered Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum muticum
17. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
18. Purple Poppymallow
Callirhoe involucrata
19. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
20. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
21. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
22. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
23. Pinkladies
Oenothera speciosa
24. Plains Coreopsis
Coreopsis tinctoria
25. Azure Blue Sage
Salvia azurea
26. Yellow Wild Indigo
Baptisia sphaerocarpa
27. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
28. Rose Mock Vervain
Glandularia canadensis
29. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
30. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
31. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
32. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
33. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
34. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
35. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
36. Maypop
Passiflora incarnata
37. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
38. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
39. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
40. Narrowleaf Evening Primrose
Oenothera fruticosa
41. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
42. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
43. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
44. Lyreleaf Sage
Salvia lyrata
45. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
46. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
47. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
48. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
49. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
50. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
51. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
52. Cherokee Sedge
Carex cherokeensis
53. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
54. Lemon Beebalm
Monarda citriodora
55. Star Tickseed
Coreopsis pubescens
56. Roundleaf Ragwort
Packera obovata
57. Blue Wood Sedge
Carex flaccosperma
58. Fringed Bluestar
Amsonia ciliata
59. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
60. Eastern Bluestar
Amsonia tabernaemontana var. salicifolia
61. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
62. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
63. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
64. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
65. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
66. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
67. Lanceleaf Blanketflower
Gaillardia aestivalis
68. Texas Sedge
Carex texensis
69. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
70. Prairie Sundrops
Oenothera pilosella
71. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
72. Scaly Blazing Star
Liatris squarrosa
73. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
74. Largeflower Fameflower
Phemeranthus calycinus
75. Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Lysimachia lanceolata
76. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
77. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
78. American Beakgrain
Diarrhena obovata
79. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
80. Late Purple Aster
Symphyotrichum patens
81. Prairie Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium campestre
82. Blue Sedge
Carex glaucodea
83. Smooth Wild Petunia
Ruellia strepens
84. Parlin’s Pussytoes
Antennaria parlinii
85. St. Andrew’s Cross
Hypericum hypericoides
86. Fringed Poppy Mallow
Callirhoe digitata
87. Violet Wood-Sorrel
Oxalis violacea
88. Narrowleaf Vervain
Verbena simplex
89. Blue Ridge Blueberry
Vaccinium pallidum
90. Slender Lespedeza
Lespedeza virginica
91. Jersey Tea
Ceanothus herbaceus
92. Early Blue Violet
Viola palmata
93. Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolia
94. Hairy Lespedeza
Lespedeza hirta
95. Sidebeak Pencilflower
Stylosanthes biflora
96. Shaggy Dwarf Morning-Glory
Evolvulus nuttallianus
97. Long-Leaved Bluet
Houstonia longifolia
98. Man Of The Earth
Ipomoea pandurata
99. Ernest’s Spiderwort
Tradescantia ernestiana
100. Ozark Phlox
Phlox pilosa subsp. ozarkana
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