This list shows 76 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. Creeping Barberry
Mahonia repens
4. California Fuchsia
Epilobium canum
5. Skunkbush Sumac
Rhus trilobata
6. Woods’ Rose
Rosa woodsii
7. Western Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium bellum
8. Black Sage
Salvia mellifera
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. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
15. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
16. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
17. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
18. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
19. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
20. Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
21. Desert Marigold
Baileya multiradiata
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. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
29. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
30. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
31. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
32. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
33. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
34. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
35. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
36. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
37. Colorado Four O’Clock
Mirabilis multiflora
38. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
39. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
40. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
41. Broadleaf Lupine
Lupinus latifolius
42. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
43. Birdcage Evening Primrose
Oenothera deltoides
44. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
45. Chaparral Whitethorn
Ceanothus leucodermis
46. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
47. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
48. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
49. White Sagebrush
Artemisia ludoviciana subsp. albula
50. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
51. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
52. Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis var. villosa
53. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
54. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
55. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
56. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
57. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
58. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
59. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
60. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
61. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
62. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
63. Spreading Fleabane
Erigeron divergens
64. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
65. California Lilac
Ceanothus pauciflorus
66. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
67. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
68. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
69. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
70. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
71. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
72. Arizona Lupine
Lupinus arizonicus
73. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
74. Rancheria Clover
Trifolium albopurpureum
75. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
76. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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