This list shows 63 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. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
14. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
15. Beach Strawberry
Fragaria chiloensis
16. Southern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum capillus-veneris
17. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
18. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
19. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
20. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
21. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
22. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
23. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
24. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
25. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
26. Giant Coreopsis
Coreopsis gigantea
27. Coastal Buckwheat
Eriogonum cinereum
28. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
29. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
30. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
31. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
32. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
33. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
34. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
35. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
36. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
37. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
38. Seacliff Buckwheat
Eriogonum parvifolium
39. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
40. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
41. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
42. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
43. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
44. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
45. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
46. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
47. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
48. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
49. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
50. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
51. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
52. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
53. California Gilia
Gilia achilleifolia
54. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
55. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
56. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
57. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
58. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
59. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
60. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
61. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
62. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
63. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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