This list shows 85 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. Kinnikinnick
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
3. California Poppy
Eschscholzia californica
4. Crevice Alumroot
Heuchera micrantha
5. Seaside Fleabane
Erigeron glaucus
6. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
7. California Fuchsia
Epilobium canum
8. Salal
Gaultheria shallon
9. Evergreen Huckleberry
Vaccinium ovatum
10. Western Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium bellum
11. Coyote Mint
Monardella villosa
12. California Hummingbird Sage
Salvia spathacea
13. Black Sage
Salvia mellifera
14. Beach Wormwood
Artemisia pycnocephala
15. Hooker’s Manzanita
Arctostaphylos hookeri
16. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
17. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
18. Sea Thrift
Armeria maritima
19. Tufted Hairgrass
Deschampsia cespitosa
20. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
21. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
22. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
23. Bigflower Tellima
Tellima grandiflora
24. Beach Strawberry
Fragaria chiloensis
25. Common Woolly Sunflower
Eriophyllum lanatum
26. Southern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum capillus-veneris
27. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
28. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
29. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
30. Redwood Sorrel
Oxalis oregana
31. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
32. Sand Dune Sedge
Carex pansa
33. Baldhip Rose
Rosa gymnocarpa
34. Creeping Snowberry
Symphoricarpos mollis
35. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
36. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
37. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
38. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
39. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
40. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
41. Western Fescue
Festuca occidentalis
42. Carmel Ceanothus
Ceanothus griseus
43. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
44. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
45. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
46. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
47. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
48. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
49. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
50. Yerba Buena
Micromeria douglasii
51. Monterey Ceanothus
Ceanothus rigidus
52. Seacliff Buckwheat
Eriogonum parvifolium
53. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
54. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
55. Broadleaf Lupine
Lupinus latifolius
56. Sandmat Manzanita
Arctostaphylos pumila
57. Oneleaf Onion
Allium unifolium
58. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
59. Wartleaf Ceanothus
Ceanothus papillosus
60. Eastwood’s Manzanita
Arctostaphylos glandulosa
61. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
62. California Seapink
Armeria maritima subsp. californica
63. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
64. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum subsp. amplexicaule
65. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
66. Splitawn Sedge
Carex tumulicola
67. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
68. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
69. Powdery Liveforever
Dudleya farinosa
70. Canyon Liveforever
Dudleya cymosa
71. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
72. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
73. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
74. Sea Lettuce
Dudleya caespitosa
75. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
76. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
77. California Gilia
Gilia achilleifolia
78. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
79. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
80. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
81. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
82. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
83. Thimbleberry
Rubus nutkanus
84. Coastal Sand Verbena
Abronia latifolia
85. Whitetip Clover
Trifolium variegatum
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