This list shows 69 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. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
14. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
15. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
16. Beach Strawberry
Fragaria chiloensis
17. Southern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum capillus-veneris
18. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
19. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
20. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
21. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
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. Coastal Buckwheat
Eriogonum cinereum
28. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
29. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
30. Southern Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
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. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
39. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
40. Seacliff Buckwheat
Eriogonum parvifolium
41. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
42. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
43. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
44. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
45. Canyon Sunflower
Venegasia carpesioides
46. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
47. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
48. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
49. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
50. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
51. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
52. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
53. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
54. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
55. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
56. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
57. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
58. California Gilia
Gilia achilleifolia
59. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
60. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
61. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
62. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
63. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
64. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
65. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
66. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
67. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
68. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
69. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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