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