This list shows 73 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. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
13. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
14. Beach Strawberry
Fragaria chiloensis
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. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
23. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
24. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
25. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
26. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
27. Giant Coreopsis
Coreopsis gigantea
28. Coastal Buckwheat
Eriogonum cinereum
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. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
36. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
37. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
38. Chalk Dudleya
Dudleya pulverulenta
39. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
40. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
41. Seacliff Buckwheat
Eriogonum parvifolium
42. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
43. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
44. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
45. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
46. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
47. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
48. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
49. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
50. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
51. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
52. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
53. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
54. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
55. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
56. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
57. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
58. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
59. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
60. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
61. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
62. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
63. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
64. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
65. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
66. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
67. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
68. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
69. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
70. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
71. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
72. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
73. Silverweed Cinquefoil
Potentilla anserina
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