This list shows 81 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. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
2. California Poppy
Eschscholzia californica
3. White Sage
Salvia apiana
4. Purple Sage
Salvia leucophylla
5. California Fuchsia
Epilobium canum
6. Western Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium bellum
7. Coyote Mint
Monardella villosa
8. California Hummingbird Sage
Salvia spathacea
9. Black Sage
Salvia mellifera
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. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
18. Beach Strawberry
Fragaria chiloensis
19. Southern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum capillus-veneris
20. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
21. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
22. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
23. Creeping Snowberry
Symphoricarpos mollis
24. Scarlet Bugler
Penstemon centranthifolius
25. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
26. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
27. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
28. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
29. Deer Brush
Ceanothus integerrimus
30. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
31. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
32. Giant Coreopsis
Coreopsis gigantea
33. Coastal Buckwheat
Eriogonum cinereum
34. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
35. Southern Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
36. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
37. Lewis Flax
Linum lewisii
38. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
39. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
40. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
41. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
42. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
43. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
44. Yerba Buena
Micromeria douglasii
45. Chalk Dudleya
Dudleya pulverulenta
46. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
47. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
48. Seacliff Buckwheat
Eriogonum parvifolium
49. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
50. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
51. Broadleaf Lupine
Lupinus latifolius
52. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
53. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
54. Canyon Sunflower
Venegasia carpesioides
55. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
56. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
57. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
58. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
59. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
60. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
61. Hummingbird Trumpet
Epilobium canum subsp. angustifolium
62. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
63. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
64. Canyon Liveforever
Dudleya cymosa
65. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
66. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
67. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
68. Seaside Alumroot
Heuchera pilosissima
69. California Gilia
Gilia achilleifolia
70. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
71. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
72. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
73. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
74. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
75. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
76. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
77. Rancheria Clover
Trifolium albopurpureum
78. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
79. Whitetip Clover
Trifolium variegatum
80. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
81. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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