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