This list shows 83 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. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
13. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
14. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
15. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
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. Creeping Snowberry
Symphoricarpos mollis
23. Scarlet Bugler
Penstemon centranthifolius
24. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
25. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
26. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
27. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
28. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
29. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
30. Giant Coreopsis
Coreopsis gigantea
31. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
32. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
33. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
34. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
35. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
36. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
37. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
38. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
39. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
40. Chalk Dudleya
Dudleya pulverulenta
41. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
42. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
43. Seacliff Buckwheat
Eriogonum parvifolium
44. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
45. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
46. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
47. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
48. San Diego Sedge
Carex spissa
49. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
50. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
51. Canyon Sunflower
Venegasia carpesioides
52. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
53. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
54. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
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. Hummingbird Trumpet
Epilobium canum subsp. angustifolium
61. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
62. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
63. Bitter Root
Lewisia rediviva
64. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
65. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
66. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
67. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
68. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
69. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
70. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
71. Seashore Vervain
Verbena litoralis
72. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
73. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
74. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
75. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
76. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
77. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
78. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
79. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
80. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
81. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
82. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
83. Silverweed Cinquefoil
Potentilla anserina
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