This list shows 89 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. Creeping Barberry
Mahonia repens
4. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
5. California Fuchsia
Epilobium canum
6. Skunkbush Sumac
Rhus trilobata
7. Bunchleaf Penstemon
Penstemon heterophyllus
8. Sulfurflower Buckwheat
Eriogonum umbellatum
9. Desert Globemallow
Sphaeralcea ambigua
10. Black Sage
Salvia mellifera
11. California Bush Sunflower
Encelia californica
12. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
13. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
14. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
15. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
16. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
17. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
18. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
19. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
20. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
21. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
22. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
23. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
24. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
25. Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
26. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
27. Desert Marigold
Baileya multiradiata
28. Scarlet Bugler
Penstemon centranthifolius
29. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
30. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
31. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
32. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
33. Deer Brush
Ceanothus integerrimus
34. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
35. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
36. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
37. Southern Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
38. Lewis Flax
Linum lewisii
39. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
40. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
41. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
42. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
43. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
44. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
45. Colorado Four O’Clock
Mirabilis multiflora
46. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
47. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
48. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
49. Broadleaf Lupine
Lupinus latifolius
50. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
51. Birdcage Evening Primrose
Oenothera deltoides
52. Chaparral Whitethorn
Ceanothus leucodermis
53. Eastwood’s Manzanita
Arctostaphylos glandulosa
54. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
55. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
56. Shaggy-Haired Alumroot
Heuchera hirsutissima
57. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
58. White Sagebrush
Artemisia ludoviciana subsp. albula
59. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
60. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
61. Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis var. villosa
62. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
63. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
64. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
65. Woolly Desert Marigold
Baileya pleniradiata
66. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
67. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
68. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
69. Bitter Root
Lewisia rediviva
70. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
71. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
72. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
73. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
74. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
75. Spreading Fleabane
Erigeron divergens
76. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
77. California Lilac
Ceanothus pauciflorus
78. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
79. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
80. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
81. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
82. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
83. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
84. Arizona Lupine
Lupinus arizonicus
85. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
86. Rancheria Clover
Trifolium albopurpureum
87. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
88. Whitetip Clover
Trifolium variegatum
89. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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