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. 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. Black Sage
Salvia mellifera
8. Palmer’s Indian Mallow
Abutilon palmeri
9. California Bush Sunflower
Encelia californica
10. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
11. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
12. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
13. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
14. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
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. Scarlet Bugler
Penstemon centranthifolius
23. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
24. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
25. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
26. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
27. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
28. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
29. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
30. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
31. Del Mar Manzanita
Arctostaphylos glandulosa subsp. crassifolia
32. Sea Dahlia
Coreopsis maritima
33. Southern Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
34. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
35. Lewis Flax
Linum lewisii
36. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
37. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
38. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
39. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
40. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
41. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
42. Chalk Dudleya
Dudleya pulverulenta
43. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
44. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
45. Seacliff Buckwheat
Eriogonum parvifolium
46. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
47. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
48. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
49. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
50. Chaparral Whitethorn
Ceanothus leucodermis
51. Eastwood’s Manzanita
Arctostaphylos glandulosa
52. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
53. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
54. Munz’s Sage
Salvia munzii
55. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
56. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
57. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
58. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
59. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
60. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
61. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
62. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
63. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
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. Seashore Vervain
Verbena litoralis
71. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
72. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
73. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
74. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
75. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
76. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
77. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
78. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
79. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
80. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
81. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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