This list shows 65 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. Skunkbush Sumac
Rhus trilobata
6. Western Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium bellum
7. California Hummingbird Sage
Salvia spathacea
8. Black Sage
Salvia mellifera
9. Palmer’s Indian Mallow
Abutilon palmeri
10. California Bush Sunflower
Encelia californica
11. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
12. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
13. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
14. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
15. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
16. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
17. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
18. Beach Strawberry
Fragaria chiloensis
19. Southern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum capillus-veneris
20. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
21. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
22. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
23. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
24. Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
25. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
26. Scarlet Bugler
Penstemon centranthifolius
27. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
28. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
29. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
30. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
31. Golden Currant
Ribes aureum var. gracillimum
32. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
33. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
34. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
35. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
36. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
37. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
38. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
39. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
40. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
41. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
42. Broadleaf Lupine
Lupinus latifolius
43. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
44. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
45. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
46. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
47. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
48. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
49. Hummingbird Trumpet
Epilobium canum subsp. angustifolium
50. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
51. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
52. Canyon Liveforever
Dudleya cymosa
53. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
54. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
55. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
56. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
57. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
58. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
59. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
60. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
61. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
62. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
63. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
64. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
65. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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