This list shows 87 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. Bunchleaf Penstemon
Penstemon heterophyllus
8. California Hummingbird Sage
Salvia spathacea
9. Black Sage
Salvia mellifera
10. Palmer’s Indian Mallow
Abutilon palmeri
11. California Bush Sunflower
Encelia californica
12. Mexican Gold Poppy
Eschscholzia californica subsp. mexicana
13. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
14. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
15. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
16. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
17. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
18. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
19. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
20. Beach Strawberry
Fragaria chiloensis
21. Southern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum capillus-veneris
22. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
23. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
24. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
25. Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
26. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
27. Creeping Snowberry
Symphoricarpos mollis
28. Scarlet Bugler
Penstemon centranthifolius
29. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
30. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
31. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
32. Deer Brush
Ceanothus integerrimus
33. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
34. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
35. Golden Currant
Ribes aureum var. gracillimum
36. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
37. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
38. Southern Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
39. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
40. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
41. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
42. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
43. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
44. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
45. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
46. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
47. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus var. laevigatus
48. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
49. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
50. Broadleaf Lupine
Lupinus latifolius
51. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
52. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
53. Chaparral Whitethorn
Ceanothus leucodermis
54. Eastwood’s Manzanita
Arctostaphylos glandulosa
55. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
56. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
57. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
58. White Sagebrush
Artemisia ludoviciana subsp. albula
59. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
60. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
61. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
62. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
63. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
64. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
65. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
66. Hummingbird Trumpet
Epilobium canum subsp. angustifolium
67. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
68. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
69. Bitter Root
Lewisia rediviva
70. Canyon Liveforever
Dudleya cymosa
71. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
72. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
73. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
74. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
75. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
76. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
77. California Gilia
Gilia achilleifolia
78. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
79. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
80. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
81. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
82. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
83. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
84. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
85. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
86. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
87. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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