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. 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. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
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. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
28. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
29. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
30. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
31. Southern Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
32. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
33. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
34. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
35. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
36. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
37. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
38. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
39. Chalk Dudleya
Dudleya pulverulenta
40. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
41. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
42. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
43. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
44. Broadleaf Lupine
Lupinus latifolius
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. Munz’s Sage
Salvia munzii
52. Canyon Sunflower
Venegasia carpesioides
53. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
54. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
55. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
56. Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis var. villosa
57. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
58. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
59. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
60. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
61. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
62. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
63. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
64. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
65. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
66. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
67. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
68. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
69. Spreading Fleabane
Erigeron divergens
70. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
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. Rancheria Clover
Trifolium albopurpureum
80. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
81. Whitetip Clover
Trifolium variegatum
82. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
83. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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