This list shows 82 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. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
20. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
21. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
22. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
23. Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
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. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
32. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
33. Golden Currant
Ribes aureum var. gracillimum
34. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
35. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
36. Southern Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
37. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
38. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
39. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
40. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
41. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
42. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
43. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
44. Chalk Dudleya
Dudleya pulverulenta
45. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
46. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
47. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
48. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
49. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
50. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
51. Chaparral Whitethorn
Ceanothus leucodermis
52. Eastwood’s Manzanita
Arctostaphylos glandulosa
53. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
54. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
55. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
56. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
57. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
58. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
59. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
60. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
61. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
62. Hummingbird Trumpet
Epilobium canum subsp. angustifolium
63. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
64. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
65. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
66. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
67. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
68. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
69. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
70. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
71. California Gilia
Gilia achilleifolia
72. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
73. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
74. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
75. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
76. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
77. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
78. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
79. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
80. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
81. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
82. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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