This list shows 82 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. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
15. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
16. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
17. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
18. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
19. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
20. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
21. Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
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. 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. Chalk Dudleya
Dudleya pulverulenta
42. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
43. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
44. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
45. Broadleaf Lupine
Lupinus latifolius
46. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
47. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
48. Chaparral Whitethorn
Ceanothus leucodermis
49. Eastwood’s Manzanita
Arctostaphylos glandulosa
50. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
51. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
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. 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. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
71. California Gilia
Gilia achilleifolia
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
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