This list shows 71 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. Creeping Juniper
Juniperus horizontalis
3. Butterfly Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa
4. Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
5. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
6. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
7. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
8. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
9. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
10. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
11. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
12. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
13. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
14. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
15. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
16. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
17. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
18. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
19. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
20. Plains Coreopsis
Coreopsis tinctoria
21. Azure Blue Sage
Salvia azurea
22. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
23. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
24. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
25. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
26. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
27. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
28. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
29. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
30. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
31. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
32. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
33. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
34. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
35. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
36. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
37. Maximilian Sunflower
Helianthus maximiliani
38. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
39. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
40. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
41. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
42. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
43. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
44. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
45. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
46. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
47. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
48. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
49. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
50. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
51. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
52. Longbract Spiderwort
Tradescantia bracteata
53. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
54. Downy Rattlesnake Plantain
Goodyera pubescens
55. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
56. Narrowleaf Vervain
Verbena simplex
57. Early Blue Violet
Viola palmata
58. Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolia
59. Hoary Puccoon
Lithospermum canescens
60. White Bear Sedge
Carex albursina
61. Downy Phlox
Phlox pilosa
62. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
63. Pointed Broom Sedge
Carex scoparia
64. Crested Sedge
Carex cristatella
65. Tall Cinquefoil
Drymocallis arguta
66. Leavenworth’s Sedge
Carex leavenworthii
67. Whitemouth Dayflower
Commelina erecta
68. Bur-Reed Sedge
Carex sparganioides
69. Western Oak Sedge
Carex inops
70. Shortbeak Sedge
Carex brevior
71. Greater Straw Sedge
Carex normalis
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