This list shows 87 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. Creeping Barberry
Mahonia repens
5. California Fuchsia
Epilobium canum
6. Skunkbush Sumac
Rhus trilobata
7. Western Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium bellum
8. Bunchleaf Penstemon
Penstemon heterophyllus
9. California Hummingbird Sage
Salvia spathacea
10. Black Sage
Salvia mellifera
11. Palmer’s Indian Mallow
Abutilon palmeri
12. California Bush Sunflower
Encelia californica
13. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
14. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
15. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
16. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
17. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
18. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
19. Southern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum capillus-veneris
20. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
21. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
22. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
23. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
24. Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
25. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
26. Creeping Snowberry
Symphoricarpos mollis
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. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
33. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
34. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
35. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
36. Southern Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
37. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
38. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
39. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
40. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
41. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
42. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
43. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
44. Chalk Dudleya
Dudleya pulverulenta
45. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
46. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
47. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
48. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
49. Broadleaf Lupine
Lupinus latifolius
50. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
51. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
52. Chaparral Whitethorn
Ceanothus leucodermis
53. Eastwood’s Manzanita
Arctostaphylos glandulosa
54. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
55. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
56. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
57. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
58. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
59. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
60. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
61. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
62. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
63. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
64. Hummingbird Trumpet
Epilobium canum subsp. angustifolium
65. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
66. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
67. Bitter Root
Lewisia rediviva
68. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
69. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
70. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
71. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
72. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
73. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
74. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
75. California Gilia
Gilia achilleifolia
76. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
77. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
78. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
79. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
80. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
81. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
82. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
83. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
84. Rancheria Clover
Trifolium albopurpureum
85. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
86. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
87. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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