This list shows 139 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. Creeping Juniper
Juniperus horizontalis
4. Butterfly Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa
5. Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
6. Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
7. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
8. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
9. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
10. Chives
Allium schoenoprasum
11. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
12. Shrubby Cinquefoil
Dasiphora fruticosa
13. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
14. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
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. Bunchberry Dogwood
Cornus canadensis
23. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
24. Marginal Wood Fern
Dryopteris marginalis
25. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
26. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
27. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
28. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
29. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
30. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
31. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
32. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
33. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
34. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
35. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
36. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
37. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
38. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
39. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
40. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
41. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
42. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
43. Bluebell Bellflower
Campanula rotundifolia
44. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
45. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
46. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
47. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
48. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
49. Old Man’s Whiskers
Geum triflorum
50. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
51. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
52. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
53. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
54. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
55. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
56. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
57. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
58. Kalm’s St. John’s Wort
Hypericum kalmianum
59. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
60. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
61. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
62. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
63. Plantainleaf Sedge
Carex plantaginea
64. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
65. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
66. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
67. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
68. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
69. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
70. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
71. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
72. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
73. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
74. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
75. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
76. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
77. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
78. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
79. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
80. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
81. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
82. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
83. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
84. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
85. Low Serviceberry
Amelanchier spicata
86. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
87. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
88. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
89. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
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. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
97. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
98. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
99. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
100. Canadian White Violet
Viola canadensis
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