This list shows 95 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. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
2. California Poppy
Eschscholzia californica
3. White Sage
Salvia apiana
4. Purple Sage
Salvia leucophylla
5. Creeping Barberry
Mahonia repens
6. California Fuchsia
Epilobium canum
7. Skunkbush Sumac
Rhus trilobata
8. Woods’ Rose
Rosa woodsii
9. Bunchleaf Penstemon
Penstemon heterophyllus
10. Sulfurflower Buckwheat
Eriogonum umbellatum
11. California Fescue
Festuca californica
12. California Hummingbird Sage
Salvia spathacea
13. Black Sage
Salvia mellifera
14. Palmer’s Indian Mallow
Abutilon palmeri
15. California Bush Sunflower
Encelia californica
16. Mexican Gold Poppy
Eschscholzia californica subsp. mexicana
17. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
18. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
19. Oregon Grape
Mahonia aquifolium
20. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
21. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
22. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
23. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
24. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
25. Southern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum capillus-veneris
26. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
27. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
28. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
29. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
30. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
31. Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
32. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
33. Creeping Snowberry
Symphoricarpos mollis
34. Scarlet Bugler
Penstemon centranthifolius
35. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
36. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
37. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
38. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
39. Deer Brush
Ceanothus integerrimus
40. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
41. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
42. Golden Currant
Ribes aureum var. gracillimum
43. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
44. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
45. Southern Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
46. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
47. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
48. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
49. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
50. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
51. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
52. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
53. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
54. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
55. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
56. Broadleaf Lupine
Lupinus latifolius
57. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
58. Birdcage Evening Primrose
Oenothera deltoides
59. Chaparral Whitethorn
Ceanothus leucodermis
60. Eastwood’s Manzanita
Arctostaphylos glandulosa
61. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
62. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
63. Canyon Sunflower
Venegasia carpesioides
64. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
65. Pointleaf Manzanita
Arctostaphylos pungens
66. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
67. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
68. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
69. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
70. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
71. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
72. Hummingbird Trumpet
Epilobium canum subsp. angustifolium
73. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
74. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
75. Mountain Coyote Mint
Monardella odoratissima
76. Canyon Liveforever
Dudleya cymosa
77. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
78. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
79. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
80. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
81. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
82. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
83. Spreading Fleabane
Erigeron divergens
84. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
85. California Gilia
Gilia achilleifolia
86. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
87. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
88. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
89. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
90. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
91. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
92. Thimbleberry
Rubus nutkanus
93. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
94. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
95. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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