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. Creeping Barberry
Mahonia repens
4. California Fuchsia
Epilobium canum
5. Skunkbush Sumac
Rhus trilobata
6. Western Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium bellum
7. Desert Globemallow
Sphaeralcea ambigua
8. Black Sage
Salvia mellifera
9. California Bush Sunflower
Encelia californica
10. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
11. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
12. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
13. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
14. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
15. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
16. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
17. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
18. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
19. Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
20. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
21. Desert Marigold
Baileya multiradiata
22. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
23. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
24. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
25. Deer Brush
Ceanothus integerrimus
26. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
27. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
28. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
29. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
30. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
31. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
32. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
33. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
34. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
35. Chalk Dudleya
Dudleya pulverulenta
36. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
37. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
38. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
39. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
40. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
41. Birdcage Evening Primrose
Oenothera deltoides
42. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
43. Chaparral Whitethorn
Ceanothus leucodermis
44. San Diego Sedge
Carex spissa
45. Eastwood’s Manzanita
Arctostaphylos glandulosa
46. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
47. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
48. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
49. White Sagebrush
Artemisia ludoviciana subsp. albula
50. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
51. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
52. Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis var. villosa
53. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
54. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
55. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
56. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
57. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
58. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
59. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
60. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
61. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
62. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
63. Spreading Fleabane
Erigeron divergens
64. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
65. California Lilac
Ceanothus pauciflorus
66. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
67. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
68. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
69. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
70. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
71. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
72. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
73. Arizona Lupine
Lupinus arizonicus
74. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
75. Rancheria Clover
Trifolium albopurpureum
76. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
77. Whitetip Clover
Trifolium variegatum
78. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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