45 Groundcover Selections
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Spreading Juniper
Juniperus horizontalis
Category: Evergreen Shrubs
Height:
6"-8"
Width:
6'-12'
Sun: full, part
Water Use: medium, low
Soil Types: well-drained sand, loam, clay tolerant
Fruit Color: blue
Fruit Type: cone
Edible Parts: fruit
Fall Color: blue, purple
Zone:
2-4
Recommended: Fragrant Garden, Groundcover, Edible Garden
Retail Pricing
#7 Cont.: $52.0024"+ spread
Oak Fern
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Gymnocarpium dryopteris
Category: Ferns
Height:
6"-1'
Width:
1'
Sun: part, shade
Soil Moisture: wet, wet-mesic, mesic
Soil Types: well-drained; sand & clay tolerant
Recommended: Deer Resistant, Groundcover
For reference only. Not currently stocked.
Christmas Fern
ref
Polystichum acrostichoides
Category: Ferns
Height:
2'-3'
Width:
1'-3'
Sun: part, shade
Soil Moisture: mesic, mesic-dry, dry
Soil Types: well-drained, humus-rich
Zone:
3-8
Recommended: Groundcover
For reference only. Not currently stocked.
Palm (Swamp Oval) Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
Category: Grasses, Rushes, & Sedges
Height:
2'-3'
Width:
1'
Sun: full, part, shade
Soil Moisture: wet-mesic
Soil Types: clay tolerant
Bloom Period: May-June
Flower Color: green
Zone:
4-7
Recommended: Deer Resistant, Groundcover
Retail Pricing
#1 Cont.: $9.95
Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pennsylvanica
Category: Grasses, Rushes, & Sedges
Height:
6"-12'
Sun: full, part, shade
Soil Moisture: mesic, mesic-dry, dry
Soil Types: sand, loam
Zone:
4-5
Recommended: Groundcover
Retail Pricing
4" Cont.: $5.50
#1 Cont.: $10.95
Path Rush
Juncus tenuis
Category: Grasses, Rushes, & Sedges
Height:
4"-1'4"
Width:
1'
Sun: full, part
Soil Moisture: mesic, mesic-dry, dry
Fruit Color: brown
Zone:
2-5
Recommended: Groundcover
Retail Pricing
#1 Cont.: $9.95
Bearberry
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Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
Category: Deciduous Shrubs
Height:
6"-1'
Width:
2'+
Sun: full, part
Soil Moisture: mesic, mesic-dry, dry
Soil Types: acidic, sandy/loam
Bloom Period: April-May
Flower Color: pink, white
Fruit Color: red
Fruit Type: berry
Fall Color: maroon
Wildlife: Bird
Zone:
2-5
Recommended: Groundcover
For reference only. Not currently stocked.
Bunchberry
ref
Cornus canadensis
Category: Deciduous Shrubs
Height:
6"-9"
Width:
6"+
Sun: part, shade
Soil Types: acidic (pH 4.5-6), fine loam/organic
Bloom Period: May-July
Flower Color: white
Fruit Period: July-October
Fruit Color: red
Fruit Type: berry
Edible Parts: fruit
Fall Color: red, maroon, purple
Zone:
2-3
Recommended: Deer Resistant, Groundcover, Edible Garden
For reference only. Not currently stocked.
Wintergreen
ref
Gaultheria procumbens
Category: Deciduous Shrubs
Height:
6"
Width:
6"+
Sun: part, shade
Soil Moisture: wet-mesic, mesic
Soil Types: acidic
Bloom Period: May-August
Flower Color: white
Fruit Color: red
Fruit Type: berry
Fall Color: red
Zone:
3-4
Recommended: Ornamental Garden, Fragrant Garden, Groundcover
For reference only. Not currently stocked.
Creeping Dewberry
ref
Rubus spp.
Category: Deciduous Shrubs
Height:
6"-1'
Width:
1'+
Sun: part, shade
Soil Moisture: wet-mesic, mesic
Soil Types: well-drained
Flower Color: white
Fruit Period: July-August
Fruit Type: berry
Edible Parts: fruit
Wildlife: Bird
Zone:
3-5
Recommended: Groundcover, Edible Garden
For reference only. Not currently stocked.
Common Lowbush Blueberry
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Vaccinium angustifolium
Category: Deciduous Shrubs
Height:
1'-2'
Width:
1'-2'
Sun: full, part
Water Use: medium
Soil Moisture: mesic
Soil Types: sand, loam
Bloom Period: May-June
Flower Color: white
Fruit Period: July-September
Fruit Color: blue
Fruit Type: berry
Edible Parts: fruit
Fall Color: red, maroon
Wildlife: Bird, Bee
Zone:
2-3
Recommended: Groundcover, Edible Garden
Out of stock. Prices/sizes for reference only.
Retail Pricing
#1 Cont.: $16.006-12" 2025
Virgin's Bower
Clematis virginiana
Category: Vines
Height:
12'-15'
Width:
6'-8'
Sun: full, part
Soil Moisture: wet, wet-mesic, mesic
Soil Types: well-drained
Bloom Period: July-August
Flower Color: white, cream
Fruit Period: August-September
Zone:
3-5
Recommended: Deer Resistant, Groundcover
Retail Pricing
#1 Cont.: $18.00
Red Vine Honeysuckle
Lonicera dioica
Category: Vines
Height:
5'-10'
Sun: part, shade
Soil Moisture: wet-mesic, mesic, mesic-dry, dry
Soil Types: tolerates rocky
Bloom Period: May-June
Flower Color: red
Fruit Color: red, orange
Fruit Type: berry
Wildlife: Bird, Bee, Hummingbird, Bumblebee
Recommended: Groundcover
Retail Pricing
#1 Cont.: $39.00
Yellow Vine Honeysuckle
Lonicera prolifera
Category: Vines
Height:
10'-15'
Width:
4'-8'
Sun: full, part, shade
Water Use: medium
Soil Moisture: wet-mesic, mesic
Soil Types: well-drained
Bloom Period: May-June
Flower Color: yellow, cream
Fruit Color: red, orange
Fruit Type: berry
Wildlife: Bird, Bee, Hummingbird, Bumblebee
Zone:
4
Recommended: Groundcover
Retail Pricing
#1 Cont.: $29.00
Woodbine
Parthenocissus inserta
Category: Vines
Height:
12'-20'
Width:
3'-6'
Sun: part, shade
Water Use: medium
Flower Color: green
Fruit Color: blue, black
Fruit Type: berry
Fall Color: red
Wildlife: Bird
Zone:
3-8
Recommended: Deer Resistant, Groundcover
Retail Pricing
#2 Cont.: $18.00
Virginia Creeper
ref
Parthenocissus quinquefolia
Category: Vines
Height:
50'
Sun: full, part, shade
Water Use: low
Soil Moisture: wet-mesic
Soil Types: clay, sandy, rocky, limestone
Bloom Period: May-June
Flower Color: green
Fruit Period: September
Fruit Color: blue, black
Fruit Type: berry
Fall Color: red, maroon
Wildlife: Bird
Zone:
2-6
Recommended: Deer Resistant, Groundcover
For reference only. Not currently stocked.
Canada Mayflower
Anemone canadensis
Category: Wildflowers
Height:
1'-2'
Width:
1'+
Sun: full, part
Soil Moisture: wet-mesic
Bloom Period: May-June
Flower Color: white
Zone:
3-4
Recommended: Groundcover
Retail Pricing
Rue Anemone
Anemonella thalictroides
Category: Wildflowers
Height:
4"-6"
Width:
1'
Sun: part, shade
Soil Moisture: mesic
Soil Types: loam
Bloom Period: April-May
Flower Color: pink
Zone:
4
Recommended: Groundcover
Retail Pricing
4" Cont.: $12.95
Prairie Pussy Toes
Antennaria neglecta
Category: Wildflowers
Height:
4"
Width:
6"+
Sun: full, part
Water Use: low
Soil Moisture: mesic, mesic-dry, dry
Soil Types: sand, loam
Bloom Period: April-June
Flower Color: white
Wildlife: Butterfly
Zone:
3-5
Recommended: Groundcover
Retail Pricing
#1 Cont.: $9.95
Wild Ginger
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Asarum canadense
Category: Wildflowers
Height:
6"-1'
Sun: part, shade
Water Use: medium
Soil Moisture: wet-mesic, mesic
Soil Types: cool
Bloom Period: May-June
Flower Color: pink, white, maroon
Wildlife: Beetle
Zone:
4-5
Recommended: Groundcover
Out of stock. Prices/sizes for reference only.
Ground Plum
ref
Astragalus crassicarpus
Category: Wildflowers
Height:
6"-1'
Width:
1'
Sun: full
Water Use: low
Soil Moisture: dry
Bloom Period: April-May
Flower Color: pink, magenta, purple
Fruit Color: red, purple
Fruit Type: pod
Edible Parts: fruit
Recommended: Groundcover, Edible Garden
For reference only. Not currently stocked.
Partridge Pea
Chamaechrista fasciculata
Category: Wildflowers
Height:
6"-3'
Width:
1'
Sun: full, part
Soil Moisture: mesic, mesic-dry, dry
Bloom Period: July-September
Flower Color: yellow
Fruit Color: brown
Fruit Type: pod
Wildlife: Ant, Bee, Bumblebee
Recommended: Groundcover
Cutleaf Toothwort
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Dentaria laciniata
Category: Wildflowers
Height:
6"
Width:
1'
Sun: part
Soil Moisture: mesic
Soil Types: loam
Bloom Period: April-May
Flower Color: pink, white
Fruit Color: white
Zone:
3-7
Recommended: Groundcover
Out of stock. Prices/sizes for reference only.
Dutchman's Breeches
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Dicentra cucullaria
Category: Wildflowers
Height:
6"-1'
Width:
1'
Sun: part, shade
Soil Moisture: wet-mesic
Soil Types: rich
Bloom Period: April-May
Flower Color: white
Wildlife: Bee, Bumblebee
Zone:
3-5
Recommended: Groundcover
Out of stock. Prices/sizes for reference only.
Retail Pricing
4" Cont.: $8.752025
White Trout Lily
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Erythronium albidum
Category: Wildflowers
Height:
4"-6"
Width:
4"+
Sun: part, shade
Water Use: medium
Soil Moisture: wet-mesic, mesic
Bloom Period: April-May
Flower Color: white
Recommended: Groundcover
Out of stock. Prices/sizes for reference only.
Retail Pricing
4" Cont.: $8.752025
Yellow Trout Lily
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Erythronium americanum
Category: Wildflowers
Height:
6"
Width:
6"-8"
Sun: shade
Soil Moisture: wet-mesic, mesic
Bloom Period: April-May
Flower Color: yellow
Recommended: Groundcover
Out of stock. Prices/sizes for reference only.
Retail Pricing
4" Cont.: $8.752025
Large-Leaved Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
Category: Wildflowers
Height:
2'-3'
Width:
1'+
Sun: full, part
Soil Moisture: wet-mesic, mesic
Bloom Period: September-October
Flower Color: blue, white, lavender
Wildlife: Butterfly
Recommended: Groundcover
Retail Pricing
#1 Cont.: $11.95
Wild Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
Category: Wildflowers
Height:
6"
Width:
8"+
Sun: full
Soil Moisture: mesic, mesic-dry, dry
Bloom Period: April-May
Flower Color: white
Fruit Period: June-July
Fruit Color: red
Edible Parts: fruit
Fall Color: red, maroon
Zone:
3-5
Recommended: Groundcover, Edible Garden
Northern Bedstraw
Galium boreale
Category: Wildflowers
Height:
1'-2'
Width:
1'+
Sun: full, part
Water Use: high, medium
Soil Moisture: wet-mesic
Soil Types: loam
Bloom Period: June-July
Flower Color: white
Zone:
4
Recommended: Groundcover
Retail Pricing
3" Cont.: $6.50
Wild Geranium
Geranium maculatum
Category: Wildflowers
Height:
1'-2'
Width:
1'6"+
Sun: part, shade
Soil Moisture: mesic
Soil Types: humus-rich sand, loam
Bloom Period: April-July
Flower Color: pink, lavender
Fall Color: red
Zone:
3-5
Recommended: Groundcover
Retail Pricing
4" Cont.: $8.75
#1 Cont.: $12.952025
Prairie Smoke
Geum triflorum
Category: Wildflowers
Height:
6"-1'
Width:
1'+
Sun: full, part
Soil Moisture: mesic, mesic-dry, dry
Soil Types: sand, loam
Bloom Period: April-June
Flower Color: pink, red, silver
Fall Color: red, green, maroon, purple
Zone:
4-5
Recommended: Groundcover
Retail Pricing
4" Cont.: $8.75
#1 Cont.: $12.95
Sharp-Lobed Hepatica
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Hepatica acutiloba
Category: Wildflowers
Height:
4"-6"
Width:
6"-1'
Sun: part, shade
Soil Moisture: wet-mesic
Soil Types: orgainic loam
Bloom Period: March-May
Flower Color: pink, blue, white, lavender
Fall Color: red, brown, maroon
Zone:
4
Recommended: Groundcover
Out of stock. Prices/sizes for reference only.
Alumroot (Prairie Coralbells)
Heuchera richardsonii
Category: Wildflowers
Height:
1'-3'
Width:
1'
Sun: full, part
Soil Moisture: mesic, mesic-dry, dry
Soil Types: sand, loam
Bloom Period: May-July
Flower Color: red, yellow, green, brown
Wildlife: Hummingbird
Zone:
4
Recommended: Groundcover
Retail Pricing
Goldenseal
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Hydrastis canadensis
Category: Wildflowers
Height:
6"-1'4"
Width:
8"+
Sun: part, shade
Soil Moisture: wet-mesic
Soil Types: humus-rich
Bloom Period: April-May
Flower Color: white
Fruit Color: red
Fruit Type: berry
Fall Color: yellow
Recommended: Groundcover
Out of stock. Prices/sizes for reference only.
Virginia Waterleaf
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Hydrophyllum virginianum
Category: Wildflowers
Height:
6"-1'
Width:
2'+
Sun: part, shade
Water Use: high, medium
Soil Moisture: wet-mesic
Soil Types: loam
Bloom Period: April-May
Flower Color: white, lavender
Wildlife: Bee, Bumblebee
Zone:
4-5
Recommended: Groundcover
Out of stock. Prices/sizes for reference only.
Retail Pricing
#1 Cont.: $12.95
Dwarf Crested Iris
ref
Iris cristata
Category: Wildflowers
Height:
6"
Width:
1'+
Sun: part, shade
Soil Moisture: wet-mesic
Soil Types: loam
Bloom Period: April-May
Flower Color: blue
Zone:
3-5
Recommended: Groundcover
For reference only. Not currently stocked.
False Rue Anemone
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Isopyrum biternatum
Category: Wildflowers
Height:
4"-1'4"
Sun: part, shade
Bloom Period: April-May
Flower Color: white
Recommended: Groundcover
Out of stock. Prices/sizes for reference only.
Retail Pricing
3" Cont.: $6.502025
Twinleaf
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Jeffersonia diphylla
Category: Wildflowers
Height:
4"-1'6"
Width:
6"-9"
Sun: part, shade
Water Use: medium
Soil Moisture: wet-mesic
Soil Types: cool, well-drained, humus-rich, limestone
Bloom Period: April-May
Flower Color: white
Fruit Type: pod
Recommended: Groundcover
Out of stock. Prices/sizes for reference only.
Wild Lily-of-the-Valley
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Maianthemum canadense
Category: Wildflowers
Height:
3"-6"
Width:
1'+
Sun: part, shade
Water Use: medium
Soil Moisture: wet-mesic, mesic, mesic-dry, dry
Bloom Period: May-June
Flower Color: white
Fruit Color: red, green
Fruit Type: berry
Recommended: Groundcover
Out of stock. Prices/sizes for reference only.
Retail Pricing
Sod Flat: $49.002025
Bishop's Cap
out
Mitella diphylla
Category: Wildflowers
Height:
10"-1'6"
Sun: part, shade
Bloom Period: April-June
Flower Color: white
Recommended: Groundcover
Out of stock. Prices/sizes for reference only.
Retail Pricing
4" Cont.: $12.002025
Mayapple
Podophyllum peltatum
Category: Wildflowers
Height:
1'-2'
Width:
1'+
Sun: part
Soil Moisture: mesic
Soil Types: rich, organic
Bloom Period: May-June
Flower Color: white
Fruit Color: yellow
Fruit Type: berry
Wildlife: Bee, Bumblebee
Zone:
4
Recommended: Groundcover
Retail Pricing
Prairie Blue Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium campestre
Category: Wildflowers
Height:
9"-1'
Width:
9"-1'
Sun: full, part
Soil Moisture: mesic, mesic-dry
Soil Types: loam
Bloom Period: May-July
Flower Color: blue, violet
Zone:
3-5
Recommended: Groundcover
Retail Pricing
4" Cont.: $9.95
Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
Category: Wildflowers
Height:
1'-2'
Width:
1'+
Sun: full
Water Use: low
Soil Moisture: dry
Soil Types: sand, loam
Bloom Period: September-October
Flower Color: purple
Wildlife: Butterfly
Zone:
4
Recommended: Fragrant Garden, Groundcover
Retail Pricing
#1 Cont.: $9.95
Longbract Spiderwort
Tradescantia bracteata
Category: Wildflowers
Height:
1'-1'6"
Width:
1'6"-2'
Sun: full
Soil Moisture: mesic, mesic-dry, dry
Soil Types: shallow, rocky
Bloom Period: May-July
Flower Color: purple, violet
Wildlife: Bee
Zone:
4-9
Recommended: Groundcover
Retail Pricing
#1 Cont.: $9.95
Downy Yellow Violet
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Viola pubescens
Category: Wildflowers
Height:
6"-1'
Width:
1'
Sun: part, shade
Soil Moisture: wet-mesic
Soil Types: cool
Bloom Period: April-May
Flower Color: yellow
Edible Parts: flowers
Wildlife: Butterfly
Zone:
3-5
Recommended: Groundcover, Edible Garden
Out of stock. Prices/sizes for reference only.
Retail Pricing
4" Cont.: $9.952025