This list shows 169 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. Creeping Phlox
Phlox subulata
3. Little Bluestem
Schizachyrium scoparium
4. Butterfly Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa
5. Whorled Tickseed
Coreopsis verticillata
6. Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
7. Northern Sea Oats
Chasmanthium latifolium
8. Hairawn Muhly
Muhlenbergia capillaris
9. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
10. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
11. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
12. Trumpet Honeysuckle
Lonicera sempervirens
13. Heartleaf Foamflower
Tiarella cordifolia
14. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
15. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
16. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
17. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
18. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
19. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
20. American Alumroot
Heuchera americana
21. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
22. White Wood Aster
Eurybia divaricata
23. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
24. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
25. Clustered Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum muticum
26. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
27. Dwarf Crested Iris
Iris cristata
28. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
29. Marginal Wood Fern
Dryopteris marginalis
30. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
31. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
32. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
33. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
34. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
35. Hairy Beardtongue
Penstemon hirsutus
36. Green And Gold
Chrysogonum virginianum
37. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
38. Wild Sweetwilliam
Phlox maculata
39. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
40. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
41. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
42. Tufted Hairgrass
Deschampsia cespitosa
43. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
44. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
45. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
46. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
47. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
48. Eastern Teaberry
Gaultheria procumbens
49. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
50. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
51. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
52. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
53. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
54. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
55. Narrowleaf Evening Primrose
Oenothera fruticosa
56. Narrowleaf Evening Primrose
Oenothera fruticosa
57. Eastern Smooth Beardtongue
Penstemon laevigatus
58. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
59. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
60. Woodland Stonecrop
Sedum ternatum
61. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
62. Lyreleaf Sage
Salvia lyrata
63. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
64. Sweet Fern
Comptonia peregrina
65. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
66. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
67. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
68. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
69. Eastern Hay-Scented Fern
Dennstaedtia punctilobula
70. Plantainleaf Sedge
Carex plantaginea
71. Creeping Sedge
Carex laxiculmis
72. Horseflyweed
Baptisia tinctoria
73. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
74. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
75. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
76. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
77. Hoary Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum incanum
78. Roundleaf Ragwort
Packera obovata
79. Blue Wood Sedge
Carex flaccosperma
80. Hyssopleaf Thoroughwort
Eupatorium hyssopifolium
81. Maryland Goldenaster
Chrysopsis mariana
82. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
83. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
84. Running Serviceberry
Amelanchier stolonifera
85. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
86. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
87. New York Aster
Symphyotrichum novi-belgii
88. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
89. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
90. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
91. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
92. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
93. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
94. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
95. Low Serviceberry
Amelanchier spicata
96. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
97. Sticky Catchfly
Silene caroliniana
98. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
99. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
100. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
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