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. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
19. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
20. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
21. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
22. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
23. Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
24. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
25. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
26. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
27. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
28. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
29. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
30. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
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. 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. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
47. Chaparral Whitethorn
Ceanothus leucodermis
48. Eastwood’s Manzanita
Arctostaphylos glandulosa
49. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
50. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
51. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
52. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
53. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
54. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
55. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
56. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
57. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
58. Hummingbird Trumpet
Epilobium canum subsp. angustifolium
59. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
60. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
61. Bitter Root
Lewisia rediviva
62. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
63. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
64. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
65. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
66. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
67. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
68. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
69. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
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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