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. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
2. California Poppy
Eschscholzia californica
3. White Sage
Salvia apiana
4. Purple Sage
Salvia leucophylla
5. California Fuchsia
Epilobium canum
6. Western Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium bellum
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. Mexican Gold Poppy
Eschscholzia californica subsp. mexicana
13. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
14. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
15. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
16. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
17. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
18. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
19. Beach Strawberry
Fragaria chiloensis
20. Southern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum capillus-veneris
21. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
22. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
23. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
24. Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
25. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
26. Creeping Snowberry
Symphoricarpos mollis
27. Scarlet Bugler
Penstemon centranthifolius
28. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
29. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
30. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
31. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
32. Deer Brush
Ceanothus integerrimus
33. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
34. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
35. Golden Currant
Ribes aureum var. gracillimum
36. Coastal Buckwheat
Eriogonum cinereum
37. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
38. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
39. Southern Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
40. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
41. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
42. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
43. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
44. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
45. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
46. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
47. Chalk Dudleya
Dudleya pulverulenta
48. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
49. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
50. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
51. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
52. Broadleaf Lupine
Lupinus latifolius
53. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
54. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
55. Chaparral Whitethorn
Ceanothus leucodermis
56. Eastwood’s Manzanita
Arctostaphylos glandulosa
57. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
58. Canyon Sunflower
Venegasia carpesioides
59. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
60. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
61. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
62. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
63. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
64. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
65. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
66. Hummingbird Trumpet
Epilobium canum subsp. angustifolium
67. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
68. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
69. Mountain Coyote Mint
Monardella odoratissima
70. Bitter Root
Lewisia rediviva
71. Canyon Liveforever
Dudleya cymosa
72. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
73. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
74. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
75. Foxtail Pricklegrass
Sporobolus alopecuroides
76. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
77. California Gilia
Gilia achilleifolia
78. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
79. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
80. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
81. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
82. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
83. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
84. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
85. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
86. Rancheria Clover
Trifolium albopurpureum
87. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
88. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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