This list shows 68 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. Beach Strawberry
Fragaria chiloensis
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. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
22. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
23. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
24. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
25. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
26. Deer Brush
Ceanothus integerrimus
27. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
28. Giant Coreopsis
Coreopsis gigantea
29. Coastal Buckwheat
Eriogonum cinereum
30. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
31. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
32. Southern Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
33. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
34. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
35. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
36. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
37. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
38. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
39. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
40. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
41. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
42. Seacliff Buckwheat
Eriogonum parvifolium
43. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
44. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
45. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
46. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
47. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
48. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
49. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
50. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
51. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
52. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
53. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
54. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
55. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
56. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
57. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
58. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
59. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
60. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
61. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
62. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
63. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
64. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
65. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
66. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
67. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
68. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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