This list shows 144 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. Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
6. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
7. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
8. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
9. Chives
Allium schoenoprasum
10. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
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. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
18. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
19. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
20. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
21. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
22. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
23. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
24. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
25. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
26. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
27. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
28. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
29. Hairy Beardtongue
Penstemon hirsutus
30. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
31. Rocky Mountain Blazing Star
Liatris ligulistylis
32. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
33. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
34. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
35. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
36. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
37. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
38. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
39. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
40. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
41. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
42. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
43. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
44. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
45. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
46. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
47. Old Man’s Whiskers
Geum triflorum
48. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
49. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
50. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
51. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
52. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
53. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
54. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
55. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
56. Kalm’s St. John’s Wort
Hypericum kalmianum
57. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
58. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
59. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
60. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
61. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
62. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
63. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
64. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
65. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
66. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
67. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
68. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
69. Large Beardtongue
Penstemon grandiflorus
70. Autumn Onion
Allium stellatum
71. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
72. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
73. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
74. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
75. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
76. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
77. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
78. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
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. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
86. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
87. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
88. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
89. Western Silver Aster
Symphyotrichum sericeum
90. Prairie Sundrops
Oenothera pilosella
91. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
92. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
93. Common Juniper
Juniperus communis var. depressa
94. Marsh Blue Violet
Viola cucullata
95. Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Lysimachia lanceolata
96. Prickly Wild Rose
Rosa acicularis
97. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
98. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
99. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
100. Longbract Spiderwort
Tradescantia bracteata
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