This list shows 68 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. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
20. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
21. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
22. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
23. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
24. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
25. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
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. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
32. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
33. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
34. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
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. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
46. Canyon Sunflower
Venegasia carpesioides
47. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
48. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
49. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
50. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
51. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
52. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
53. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
54. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
55. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
56. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
57. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
58. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
59. California Gilia
Gilia achilleifolia
60. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
61. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
62. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
63. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
64. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
65. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
66. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
67. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
68. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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