This list shows 148 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. Anise Hyssop
Agastache foeniculum
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. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
22. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
23. Bunchberry Dogwood
Cornus canadensis
24. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
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. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
30. Rocky Mountain Blazing Star
Liatris ligulistylis
31. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
32. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
33. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
34. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
35. Blue Grama
Bouteloua gracilis
36. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
37. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
38. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
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. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
48. Old Man’s Whiskers
Geum triflorum
49. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
50. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
51. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
52. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
53. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
54. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
55. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
56. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
57. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
58. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
59. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
60. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
61. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
62. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
63. Maximilian Sunflower
Helianthus maximiliani
64. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
65. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
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. Sand Cherry
Prunus pumila
75. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
76. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
77. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
78. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
79. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
80. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
81. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
82. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
83. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
84. Low Serviceberry
Amelanchier spicata
85. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
86. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
87. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
88. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
89. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
90. Western Silver Aster
Symphyotrichum sericeum
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. Western Snowberry
Symphoricarpos occidentalis
99. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
100. Longbract Spiderwort
Tradescantia bracteata
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