This list shows 79 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. Skunkbush Sumac
Rhus trilobata
6. Western Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium bellum
7. Black Sage
Salvia mellifera
8. Palmer’s Indian Mallow
Abutilon palmeri
9. California Bush Sunflower
Encelia californica
10. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
11. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
12. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
13. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
14. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
15. Southern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum capillus-veneris
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. Catalina Currant
Ribes viburnifolium
22. Scarlet Bugler
Penstemon centranthifolius
23. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
24. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
25. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
26. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
27. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
28. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
29. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
30. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
31. Sea Dahlia
Coreopsis maritima
32. Southern Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
33. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
34. Lewis Flax
Linum lewisii
35. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
36. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
37. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
38. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
39. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
40. Chalk Dudleya
Dudleya pulverulenta
41. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
42. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
43. Seacliff Buckwheat
Eriogonum parvifolium
44. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
45. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
46. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
47. San Diego Sedge
Carex spissa
48. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
49. Munz’s Sage
Salvia munzii
50. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
51. California Seapink
Armeria maritima subsp. californica
52. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
53. Southwestern Mock Vervain
Glandularia gooddingii
54. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
55. Baja Rose
Rosa minutifolia
56. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
57. Woolly Desert Marigold
Baileya pleniradiata
58. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
59. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
60. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
61. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
62. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
63. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
64. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
65. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
66. Taper-Tip Liveforever
Dudleya attenuata
67. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
68. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
69. California Gilia
Gilia achilleifolia
70. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
71. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
72. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
73. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
74. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
75. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
76. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
77. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
78. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
79. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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