This list shows 74 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. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
18. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
19. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
20. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
21. Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
22. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
23. Scarlet Bugler
Penstemon centranthifolius
24. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
25. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
26. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
27. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
28. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
29. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
30. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
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. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
40. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
41. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
42. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
43. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
44. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
45. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
46. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
47. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
48. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
49. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
50. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
51. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
52. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
53. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
54. Hummingbird Trumpet
Epilobium canum subsp. angustifolium
55. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
56. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
57. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
58. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
59. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
60. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
61. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
62. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
63. California Gilia
Gilia achilleifolia
64. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
65. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
66. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
67. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
68. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
69. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
70. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
71. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
72. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
73. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
74. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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