This list shows 74 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. California Fuchsia
Epilobium canum
5. Western Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium bellum
6. California Hummingbird Sage
Salvia spathacea
7. Black Sage
Salvia mellifera
8. Palmer’s Indian Mallow
Abutilon palmeri
9. California Bush Sunflower
Encelia californica
10. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
11. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
12. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
13. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
14. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
15. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
16. Beach Strawberry
Fragaria chiloensis
17. Southern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum capillus-veneris
18. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
19. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
20. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
21. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
22. Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
23. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
24. Creeping Snowberry
Symphoricarpos mollis
25. Scarlet Bugler
Penstemon centranthifolius
26. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
27. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
28. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
29. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
30. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
31. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
32. Southern Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
33. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
34. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
35. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
36. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
37. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
38. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
39. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
40. Chalk Dudleya
Dudleya pulverulenta
41. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
42. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
43. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
44. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
45. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
46. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
47. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
48. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
49. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
50. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
51. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
52. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
53. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
54. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
55. Hummingbird Trumpet
Epilobium canum subsp. angustifolium
56. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
57. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
58. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
59. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
60. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
61. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
62. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
63. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
64. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
65. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
66. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
67. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
68. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
69. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
70. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
71. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
72. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
73. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
74. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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