This list shows 80 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. Creeping Barberry
Mahonia repens
5. California Fuchsia
Epilobium canum
6. Skunkbush Sumac
Rhus trilobata
7. Western Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium bellum
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. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
17. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
18. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
19. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
20. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
21. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
22. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
23. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
24. Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
25. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
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. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
34. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
35. Southern Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
36. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
37. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
38. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
39. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
40. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
41. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
42. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
43. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
44. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
45. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
46. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
47. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
48. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
49. Chaparral Whitethorn
Ceanothus leucodermis
50. Eastwood’s Manzanita
Arctostaphylos glandulosa
51. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
52. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
53. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
54. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
55. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
56. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
57. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
58. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
59. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
60. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
61. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
62. Bitter Root
Lewisia rediviva
63. Canyon Liveforever
Dudleya cymosa
64. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
65. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
66. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
67. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
68. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
69. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
70. California Gilia
Gilia achilleifolia
71. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
72. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
73. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
74. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
75. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
76. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
77. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
78. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
79. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
80. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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