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