This list shows 73 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. Bunchleaf Penstemon
Penstemon heterophyllus
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. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
16. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
17. Beach Strawberry
Fragaria chiloensis
18. Southern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum capillus-veneris
19. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
20. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
21. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
22. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
23. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
24. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
25. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
26. Deer Brush
Ceanothus integerrimus
27. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
28. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
29. Giant Coreopsis
Coreopsis gigantea
30. Coastal Buckwheat
Eriogonum cinereum
31. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
32. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
33. Southern Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
34. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
35. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
36. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
37. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
38. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
39. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
40. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
41. Chalk Dudleya
Dudleya pulverulenta
42. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
43. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
44. Seacliff Buckwheat
Eriogonum parvifolium
45. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
46. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
47. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
48. Canyon Sunflower
Venegasia carpesioides
49. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
50. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
51. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
52. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
53. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
54. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
55. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
56. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
57. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
58. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
59. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
60. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
61. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
62. California Gilia
Gilia achilleifolia
63. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
64. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
65. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
66. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
67. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
68. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
69. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
70. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
71. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
72. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
73. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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