This list shows 70 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. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
6. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
7. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
8. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
9. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
10. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
11. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
12. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
13. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
14. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
15. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
16. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
17. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
18. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
19. Plains Coreopsis
Coreopsis tinctoria
20. Azure Blue Sage
Salvia azurea
21. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
22. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
23. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
24. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
25. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
26. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
27. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
28. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
29. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
30. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
31. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
32. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
33. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
34. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
35. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
36. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
37. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
38. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
39. Maximilian Sunflower
Helianthus maximiliani
40. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
41. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
42. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
43. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
44. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
45. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
46. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
47. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
48. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
49. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
50. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
51. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
52. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
53. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
54. Longbract Spiderwort
Tradescantia bracteata
55. Prairie Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium campestre
56. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
57. Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolia
58. Hoary Puccoon
Lithospermum canescens
59. White Bear Sedge
Carex albursina
60. Downy Phlox
Phlox pilosa
61. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
62. Crested Sedge
Carex cristatella
63. Tall Cinquefoil
Drymocallis arguta
64. Leavenworth’s Sedge
Carex leavenworthii
65. Bur-Reed Sedge
Carex sparganioides
66. Quill Sedge
Carex tenera
67. Western Oak Sedge
Carex inops
68. Shortbeak Sedge
Carex brevior
69. Greater Straw Sedge
Carex normalis
70. Common Yellow Woodsorrel
Oxalis stricta
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