This list shows 72 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. California Hummingbird Sage
Salvia spathacea
8. Black Sage
Salvia mellifera
9. Palmer’s Indian Mallow
Abutilon palmeri
10. California Bush Sunflower
Encelia californica
11. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
12. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
13. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
14. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
15. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
16. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
17. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
18. Beach Strawberry
Fragaria chiloensis
19. Southern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum capillus-veneris
20. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
21. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
22. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
23. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
24. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
25. Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
26. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
27. Scarlet Bugler
Penstemon centranthifolius
28. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
29. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
30. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
31. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
32. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
33. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
34. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
35. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
36. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
37. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
38. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
39. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
40. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
41. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
42. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
43. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
44. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
45. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
46. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
47. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
48. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
49. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
50. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
51. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
52. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
53. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
54. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
55. Hummingbird Trumpet
Epilobium canum subsp. angustifolium
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. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
64. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
65. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
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
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