This list shows 148 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. Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
6. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
7. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
8. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
9. Heartleaf Foamflower
Tiarella cordifolia
10. Chives
Allium schoenoprasum
11. Shrubby Cinquefoil
Dasiphora fruticosa
12. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
13. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
14. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
15. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
16. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
17. American Alumroot
Heuchera americana
18. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
19. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
20. Bunchberry Dogwood
Cornus canadensis
21. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
22. Marginal Wood Fern
Dryopteris marginalis
23. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
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. Hairy Beardtongue
Penstemon hirsutus
29. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
30. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
31. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
32. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
33. Tufted Hairgrass
Deschampsia cespitosa
34. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
35. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
36. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
37. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
38. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
39. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
40. Eastern Teaberry
Gaultheria procumbens
41. Bluebell Bellflower
Campanula rotundifolia
42. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
43. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
44. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
45. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
46. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
47. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
48. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
49. Narrowleaf Evening Primrose
Oenothera fruticosa
50. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
51. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
52. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
53. Celandine Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum
54. Kalm’s St. John’s Wort
Hypericum kalmianum
55. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
56. Sweet Fern
Comptonia peregrina
57. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
58. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
59. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
60. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
61. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
62. Plantainleaf Sedge
Carex plantaginea
63. Creeping Sedge
Carex laxiculmis
64. Horseflyweed
Baptisia tinctoria
65. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
66. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
67. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
68. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
69. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
70. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
71. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
72. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
73. Sand Cherry
Prunus pumila
74. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
75. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
76. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
77. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
78. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
79. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
80. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
81. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
82. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
83. Low Serviceberry
Amelanchier spicata
84. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
85. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
86. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
87. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
88. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
89. Common Juniper
Juniperus communis var. depressa
90. Marsh Blue Violet
Viola cucullata
91. Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Lysimachia lanceolata
92. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
93. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
94. Whorled Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum verticillatum
95. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
96. Canadian White Violet
Viola canadensis
97. Wild Sarsaparilla
Aralia nudicaulis
98. Canada Mayflower
Maianthemum canadense
99. Lance Selfheal
Prunella vulgaris var. lanceolata
100. Downy Rattlesnake Plantain
Goodyera pubescens
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