This list shows 86 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. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
2. California Poppy
Eschscholzia californica
3. Crevice Alumroot
Heuchera micrantha
4. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
5. California Fuchsia
Epilobium canum
6. Idaho Fescue
Festuca idahoensis
7. Evergreen Huckleberry
Vaccinium ovatum
8. Western Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium bellum
9. Coyote Mint
Monardella villosa
10. Bunchleaf Penstemon
Penstemon heterophyllus
11. Sulfurflower Buckwheat
Eriogonum umbellatum
12. California Fescue
Festuca californica
13. California Hummingbird Sage
Salvia spathacea
14. Black Sage
Salvia mellifera
15. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
16. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
17. Oregon Grape
Mahonia aquifolium
18. Tufted Hairgrass
Deschampsia cespitosa
19. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
20. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
21. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
22. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
23. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
24. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
25. Beach Strawberry
Fragaria chiloensis
26. Common Woolly Sunflower
Eriophyllum lanatum
27. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
28. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
29. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
30. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
31. Redwood Sorrel
Oxalis oregana
32. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
33. California Wild Grape
Vitis californica
34. Baldhip Rose
Rosa gymnocarpa
35. Creeping Snowberry
Symphoricarpos mollis
36. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
37. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
38. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
39. Douglas’ Meadowfoam
Limnanthes douglasii
40. Deer Brush
Ceanothus integerrimus
41. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
42. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
43. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
44. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
45. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
46. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
47. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
48. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
49. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
50. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
51. Yerba Buena
Micromeria douglasii
52. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
53. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus var. laevigatus
54. Licorice Fern
Polypodium glycyrrhiza
55. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
56. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
57. Broadleaf Lupine
Lupinus latifolius
58. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
59. Oneleaf Onion
Allium unifolium
60. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
61. Eastwood’s Manzanita
Arctostaphylos glandulosa
62. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
63. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
64. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
65. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum subsp. amplexicaule
66. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
67. Splitawn Sedge
Carex tumulicola
68. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
69. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
70. Bitter Root
Lewisia rediviva
71. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
72. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
73. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
74. Foxtail Pricklegrass
Sporobolus alopecuroides
75. California Gilia
Gilia achilleifolia
76. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
77. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
78. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
79. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
80. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
81. Thimbleberry
Rubus nutkanus
82. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
83. Rancheria Clover
Trifolium albopurpureum
84. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
85. Whitetip Clover
Trifolium variegatum
86. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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