This list shows 84 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. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
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. Giant Coreopsis
Coreopsis gigantea
32. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
33. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
34. Southern Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
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. Chalk Dudleya
Dudleya pulverulenta
43. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
44. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
45. Seacliff Buckwheat
Eriogonum parvifolium
46. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
47. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
48. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
49. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
50. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
51. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
52. Canyon Sunflower
Venegasia carpesioides
53. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
54. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
55. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
56. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
57. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
58. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
59. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
60. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
61. Hummingbird Trumpet
Epilobium canum subsp. angustifolium
62. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
63. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
64. Bitter Root
Lewisia rediviva
65. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
66. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
67. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
68. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
69. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
70. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
71. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
72. California Gilia
Gilia achilleifolia
73. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
74. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
75. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
76. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
77. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
78. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
79. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
80. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
81. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
82. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
83. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
84. Silverweed Cinquefoil
Potentilla anserina
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