This list shows 140 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. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
5. Trumpet Honeysuckle
Lonicera sempervirens
6. Heartleaf Foamflower
Tiarella cordifolia
7. Chives
Allium schoenoprasum
8. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
9. Shrubby Cinquefoil
Dasiphora fruticosa
10. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
11. Kinnikinnick
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
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. White Wood Aster
Eurybia divaricata
18. Clustered Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum muticum
19. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
20. Bunchberry Dogwood
Cornus canadensis
21. Marginal Wood Fern
Dryopteris marginalis
22. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
23. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
24. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
25. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
26. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
27. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
28. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
29. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
30. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
31. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
32. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
33. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
34. Eastern Teaberry
Gaultheria procumbens
35. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
36. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
37. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
38. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
39. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
40. Pink Tickseed
Coreopsis rosea
41. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
42. Narrowleaf Evening Primrose
Oenothera fruticosa
43. Narrowleaf Evening Primrose
Oenothera fruticosa
44. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
45. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
46. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
47. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
48. Sweet Fern
Comptonia peregrina
49. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
50. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
51. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
52. Eastern Hay-Scented Fern
Dennstaedtia punctilobula
53. Creeping Sedge
Carex laxiculmis
54. Horseflyweed
Baptisia tinctoria
55. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
56. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
57. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
58. Hoary Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum incanum
59. Roundleaf Ragwort
Packera obovata
60. Blue Wood Sedge
Carex flaccosperma
61. Hyssopleaf Thoroughwort
Eupatorium hyssopifolium
62. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
63. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
64. Running Serviceberry
Amelanchier stolonifera
65. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
66. New York Aster
Symphyotrichum novi-belgii
67. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
68. Purple-Flowering Raspberry
Rubus odoratus
69. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
70. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
71. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
72. Beach Plum
Prunus maritima
73. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
74. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
75. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
76. Low Serviceberry
Amelanchier spicata
77. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
78. Sticky Catchfly
Silene caroliniana
79. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
80. Broad-Leaved Meadowsweet
Spiraea alba var. latifolia
81. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
82. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
83. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
84. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
85. Common Juniper
Juniperus communis var. depressa
86. Shining Rose
Rosa nitida
87. Marsh Blue Violet
Viola cucullata
88. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
89. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
90. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
91. Whorled Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum verticillatum
92. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
93. Wild Sarsaparilla
Aralia nudicaulis
94. Canada Mayflower
Maianthemum canadense
95. Late Purple Aster
Symphyotrichum patens
96. Azure Bluet
Houstonia caerulea
97. Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium montanum
98. Blue Sedge
Carex glaucodea
99. Downy Rattlesnake Plantain
Goodyera pubescens
100. Little Evening Primrose
Oenothera perennis
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