This list shows 84 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. Creeping Barberry
Mahonia repens
5. California Fuchsia
Epilobium canum
6. Skunkbush Sumac
Rhus trilobata
7. Western Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium bellum
8. Bunchleaf Penstemon
Penstemon heterophyllus
9. California Hummingbird Sage
Salvia spathacea
10. Black Sage
Salvia mellifera
11. Palmer’s Indian Mallow
Abutilon palmeri
12. California Bush Sunflower
Encelia californica
13. Mexican Gold Poppy
Eschscholzia californica subsp. mexicana
14. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
15. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
16. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
17. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
18. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
19. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
20. Southern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum capillus-veneris
21. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
22. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
23. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
24. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
25. Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
26. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
27. Creeping Snowberry
Symphoricarpos mollis
28. Scarlet Bugler
Penstemon centranthifolius
29. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
30. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
31. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
32. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
33. Deer Brush
Ceanothus integerrimus
34. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
35. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
36. Golden Currant
Ribes aureum var. gracillimum
37. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
38. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
39. Southern Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
40. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
41. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
42. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
43. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
44. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
45. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
46. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
47. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
48. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
49. Broadleaf Lupine
Lupinus latifolius
50. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
51. Chaparral Whitethorn
Ceanothus leucodermis
52. Eastwood’s Manzanita
Arctostaphylos glandulosa
53. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
54. Canyon Sunflower
Venegasia carpesioides
55. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
56. Pointleaf Manzanita
Arctostaphylos pungens
57. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
58. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
59. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
60. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
61. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
62. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
63. Hummingbird Trumpet
Epilobium canum subsp. angustifolium
64. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
65. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
66. Mountain Coyote Mint
Monardella odoratissima
67. Canyon Liveforever
Dudleya cymosa
68. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
69. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
70. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
71. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
72. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
73. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
74. California Gilia
Gilia achilleifolia
75. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
76. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
77. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
78. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
79. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
80. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
81. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
82. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
83. Whitetip Clover
Trifolium variegatum
84. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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