This list shows 88 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. Coyote Mint
Monardella villosa
7. Bunchleaf Penstemon
Penstemon heterophyllus
8. California Hummingbird Sage
Salvia spathacea
9. Black Sage
Salvia mellifera
10. Palmer’s Indian Mallow
Abutilon palmeri
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. 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. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
24. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
25. Creeping Snowberry
Symphoricarpos mollis
26. Scarlet Bugler
Penstemon centranthifolius
27. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
28. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
29. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
30. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
31. Deer Brush
Ceanothus integerrimus
32. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
33. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
34. Giant Coreopsis
Coreopsis gigantea
35. Coastal Buckwheat
Eriogonum cinereum
36. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
37. Southern Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
38. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
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. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
45. Chalk Dudleya
Dudleya pulverulenta
46. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
47. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
48. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
49. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
50. Broadleaf Lupine
Lupinus latifolius
51. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
52. Chaparral Whitethorn
Ceanothus leucodermis
53. Eastwood’s Manzanita
Arctostaphylos glandulosa
54. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
55. Canyon Sunflower
Venegasia carpesioides
56. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
57. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
58. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
59. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
60. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
61. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
62. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
63. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
64. Hummingbird Trumpet
Epilobium canum subsp. angustifolium
65. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
66. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
67. Canyon Liveforever
Dudleya cymosa
68. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
69. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
70. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
71. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
72. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
73. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
74. Spreading Fleabane
Erigeron divergens
75. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
76. California Gilia
Gilia achilleifolia
77. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
78. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
79. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
80. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
81. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
82. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
83. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
84. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
85. Rancheria Clover
Trifolium albopurpureum
86. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
87. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
88. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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