This list shows 167 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. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
11. Shrubby Cinquefoil
Dasiphora fruticosa
12. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
13. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
14. Kinnikinnick
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
15. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
16. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
17. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
18. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
19. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
20. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
21. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
22. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
23. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
24. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
25. Marginal Wood Fern
Dryopteris marginalis
26. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
27. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
28. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
29. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
30. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
31. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
32. Hairy Beardtongue
Penstemon hirsutus
33. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
34. Wild Sweetwilliam
Phlox maculata
35. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
36. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
37. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
38. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
39. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
40. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
41. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
42. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
43. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
44. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
45. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
46. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
47. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
48. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
49. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
50. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
51. Old Man’s Whiskers
Geum triflorum
52. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
53. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
54. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
55. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
56. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
57. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
58. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
59. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
60. Kalm’s St. John’s Wort
Hypericum kalmianum
61. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
62. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
63. Sweet Fern
Comptonia peregrina
64. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
65. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
66. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
67. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
68. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
69. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
70. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
71. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
72. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
73. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
74. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
75. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
76. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
77. Large Beardtongue
Penstemon grandiflorus
78. Autumn Onion
Allium stellatum
79. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
80. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
81. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
82. Sand Cherry
Prunus pumila
83. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
84. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
85. Purple-Flowering Raspberry
Rubus odoratus
86. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
87. Cleft Phlox
Phlox bifida
88. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
89. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
90. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
91. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
92. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
93. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
94. Hairy Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum pilosum
95. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
96. Low Serviceberry
Amelanchier spicata
97. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
98. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
99. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
100. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
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