This list shows 70 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. California Fuchsia
Epilobium canum
4. Western Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium bellum
5. Black Sage
Salvia mellifera
6. California Bush Sunflower
Encelia californica
7. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
8. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
9. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
10. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
11. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
12. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
13. Southern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum capillus-veneris
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. Desert Marigold
Baileya multiradiata
20. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
21. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
22. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
23. Deer Brush
Ceanothus integerrimus
24. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
25. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
26. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
27. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
28. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
29. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
30. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
31. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
32. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
33. Colorado Four O’Clock
Mirabilis multiflora
34. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
35. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
36. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
37. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
38. Birdcage Evening Primrose
Oenothera deltoides
39. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
40. Chaparral Whitethorn
Ceanothus leucodermis
41. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
42. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
43. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
44. White Sagebrush
Artemisia ludoviciana subsp. albula
45. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
46. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
47. Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis var. villosa
48. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
49. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
50. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
51. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
52. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
53. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
54. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
55. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
56. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
57. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
58. Spreading Fleabane
Erigeron divergens
59. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
60. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
61. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
62. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
63. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
64. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
65. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
66. Arizona Lupine
Lupinus arizonicus
67. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
68. Rancheria Clover
Trifolium albopurpureum
69. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
70. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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