This list shows 65 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. California Hummingbird Sage
Salvia spathacea
7. Black Sage
Salvia mellifera
8. Palmer’s Indian Mallow
Abutilon palmeri
9. California Bush Sunflower
Encelia californica
10. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
11. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
12. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
13. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
14. Beach Strawberry
Fragaria chiloensis
15. Southern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum capillus-veneris
16. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
17. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
18. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
19. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
20. Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
21. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
22. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
23. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
24. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
25. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
26. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
27. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
28. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
29. Southern Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
30. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
31. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
32. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
33. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
34. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
35. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
36. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
37. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
38. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
39. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
40. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
41. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
42. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
43. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
44. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
45. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
46. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
47. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
48. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
49. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
50. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
51. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
52. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
53. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
54. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
55. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
56. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
57. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
58. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
59. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
60. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
61. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
62. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
63. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
64. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
65. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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