This list shows 78 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. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
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. Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
22. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
23. Creeping Snowberry
Symphoricarpos mollis
24. Scarlet Bugler
Penstemon centranthifolius
25. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
26. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
27. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
28. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
29. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
30. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
31. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
32. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
33. Southern Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
34. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
35. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
36. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
37. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
38. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
39. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
40. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
41. Chalk Dudleya
Dudleya pulverulenta
42. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
43. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
44. Seacliff Buckwheat
Eriogonum parvifolium
45. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
46. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
47. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
48. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
49. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
50. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
51. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
52. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
53. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
54. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
55. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
56. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
57. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
58. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
59. Hummingbird Trumpet
Epilobium canum subsp. angustifolium
60. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
61. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
62. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
63. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
64. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
65. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
66. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
67. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
68. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
69. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
70. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
71. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
72. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
73. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
74. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
75. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
76. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
77. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
78. Silverweed Cinquefoil
Potentilla anserina
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