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. 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. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
13. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
14. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
15. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
16. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
17. Beach Strawberry
Fragaria chiloensis
18. Southern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum capillus-veneris
19. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
20. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
21. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
22. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
23. Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
24. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
25. Creeping Snowberry
Symphoricarpos mollis
26. Scarlet Bugler
Penstemon centranthifolius
27. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
28. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
29. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
30. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
31. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
32. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
33. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
34. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
35. Southern Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
36. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
37. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
38. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
39. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
40. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
41. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
42. Chalk Dudleya
Dudleya pulverulenta
43. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
44. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
45. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
46. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
47. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
48. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
49. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
50. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
51. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
52. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
53. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
54. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
55. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
56. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
57. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
58. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
59. Hummingbird Trumpet
Epilobium canum subsp. angustifolium
60. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
61. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
62. Bitter Root
Lewisia rediviva
63. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
64. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
65. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
66. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
67. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
68. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
69. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
70. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
71. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
72. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
73. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
74. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
75. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
76. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
77. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
78. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
79. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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