This list shows 81 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. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
12. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
13. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
14. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
15. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
16. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
17. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
18. Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
19. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
20. Scarlet Bugler
Penstemon centranthifolius
21. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
22. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
23. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
24. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
25. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
26. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
27. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
28. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
29. Del Mar Manzanita
Arctostaphylos glandulosa subsp. crassifolia
30. Sea Dahlia
Coreopsis maritima
31. Southern Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
32. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
33. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
34. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
35. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
36. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
37. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
38. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
39. Chalk Dudleya
Dudleya pulverulenta
40. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
41. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
42. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
43. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
44. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
45. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
46. San Diego Sedge
Carex spissa
47. Eastwood’s Manzanita
Arctostaphylos glandulosa
48. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
49. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
50. Munz’s Sage
Salvia munzii
51. Canyon Sunflower
Venegasia carpesioides
52. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
53. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
54. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
55. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
56. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
57. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
58. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
59. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
60. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
61. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
62. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
63. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
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. Spreading Fleabane
Erigeron divergens
69. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
70. Seashore Vervain
Verbena litoralis
71. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
72. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
73. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
74. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
75. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
76. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
77. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
78. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
79. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
80. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
81. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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