This list shows 90 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. California Poppy
Eschscholzia californica
2. White Sage
Salvia apiana
3. Purple Sage
Salvia leucophylla
4. Creeping Barberry
Mahonia repens
5. California Fuchsia
Epilobium canum
6. Skunkbush Sumac
Rhus trilobata
7. Woods’ Rose
Rosa woodsii
8. Western Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium bellum
9. Coyote Mint
Monardella villosa
10. Bunchleaf Penstemon
Penstemon heterophyllus
11. California Fescue
Festuca californica
12. California Hummingbird Sage
Salvia spathacea
13. Black Sage
Salvia mellifera
14. Palmer’s Indian Mallow
Abutilon palmeri
15. California Bush Sunflower
Encelia californica
16. Mexican Gold Poppy
Eschscholzia californica subsp. mexicana
17. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
18. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
19. Oregon Grape
Mahonia aquifolium
20. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
21. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
22. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
23. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
24. Southern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum capillus-veneris
25. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
26. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
27. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
28. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
29. Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
30. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
31. Creeping Snowberry
Symphoricarpos mollis
32. Scarlet Bugler
Penstemon centranthifolius
33. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
34. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
35. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
36. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
37. Deer Brush
Ceanothus integerrimus
38. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
39. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
40. Golden Currant
Ribes aureum var. gracillimum
41. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
42. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
43. Southern Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
44. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
45. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
46. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
47. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
48. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
49. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
50. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
51. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
52. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
53. Broadleaf Lupine
Lupinus latifolius
54. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
55. Birdcage Evening Primrose
Oenothera deltoides
56. Chaparral Whitethorn
Ceanothus leucodermis
57. Eastwood’s Manzanita
Arctostaphylos glandulosa
58. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
59. Canyon Sunflower
Venegasia carpesioides
60. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
61. Pointleaf Manzanita
Arctostaphylos pungens
62. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
63. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
64. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
65. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
66. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
67. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
68. Hummingbird Trumpet
Epilobium canum subsp. angustifolium
69. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
70. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
71. Mountain Coyote Mint
Monardella odoratissima
72. Bitter Root
Lewisia rediviva
73. Canyon Liveforever
Dudleya cymosa
74. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
75. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
76. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
77. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
78. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
79. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
80. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
81. California Gilia
Gilia achilleifolia
82. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
83. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
84. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
85. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
86. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
87. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
88. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
89. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
90. Whitetip Clover
Trifolium variegatum
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