This list shows 83 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. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
15. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
16. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
17. Southern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum capillus-veneris
18. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
19. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
20. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
21. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
22. Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
23. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
24. Creeping Snowberry
Symphoricarpos mollis
25. Scarlet Bugler
Penstemon centranthifolius
26. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
27. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
28. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
29. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
30. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
31. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
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. 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. Canyon Sunflower
Venegasia carpesioides
52. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
53. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
54. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
55. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
56. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
57. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
58. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
59. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
60. Hummingbird Trumpet
Epilobium canum subsp. angustifolium
61. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
62. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
63. Bitter Root
Lewisia rediviva
64. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
65. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
66. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
67. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
68. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
69. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
70. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
71. California Gilia
Gilia achilleifolia
72. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
73. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
74. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
75. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
76. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
77. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
78. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
79. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
80. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
81. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
82. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
83. Silverweed Cinquefoil
Potentilla anserina
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