This list shows 64 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. Western Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium bellum
6. California Hummingbird Sage
Salvia spathacea
7. Black Sage
Salvia mellifera
8. Palmer’s Indian Mallow
Abutilon palmeri
9. California Bush Sunflower
Encelia californica
10. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
11. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
12. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
13. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
14. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
15. Beach Strawberry
Fragaria chiloensis
16. Southern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum capillus-veneris
17. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
18. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
19. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
20. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
21. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
22. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
23. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
24. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
25. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
26. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
27. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
28. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
29. Southern Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
30. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
31. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
32. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
33. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
34. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
35. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
36. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
37. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
38. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
39. Seacliff Buckwheat
Eriogonum parvifolium
40. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
41. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
42. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
43. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
44. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
45. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
46. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
47. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
48. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
49. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
50. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
51. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
52. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
53. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
54. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
55. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
56. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
57. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
58. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
59. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
60. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
61. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
62. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
63. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
64. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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