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What you need is a creeping groundcover and there are several types. Such as:

Creeping Sedum and upright Sedum
Sempervivum (Hen and chicks)
Delosperma (Ice plant)
Euphorbia myrsinites (Spurge)

Why not make a rock garden there with different varieties of succulents to grow around rocks. All are hardy in your area. They don't need much water and love full sun and not fussy about soil. Delosperma does need well drained soil but you can mix sand in the planting hole.

These plants propagate easily by cuttings. They also bloom. Creepers bloom in June, some of the uprights bloom late summer through fall. Together they give a nice contrast to a planting.

Sempervivums don't creep, but do spread by offsets.

Spurge don't creep but selfsows readily and blooms early spring.

Caption: Delosperma cooperi, often called the Red Iceplant. Readily available in garden centers. This one blooms from June to frost in my zone 4.