This list shows 88 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. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
12. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
13. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
14. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
15. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
16. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
17. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
18. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
19. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
20. Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
21. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
22. Creeping Snowberry
Symphoricarpos mollis
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. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
29. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
30. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
31. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
32. Sea Dahlia
Coreopsis maritima
33. Southern Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
34. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
35. Lewis Flax
Linum lewisii
36. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
37. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
38. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
39. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
40. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
41. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
42. Chalk Dudleya
Dudleya pulverulenta
43. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
44. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
45. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
46. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
47. Broadleaf Lupine
Lupinus latifolius
48. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
49. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
50. Chaparral Whitethorn
Ceanothus leucodermis
51. San Diego Sedge
Carex spissa
52. Eastwood’s Manzanita
Arctostaphylos glandulosa
53. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
54. Munz’s Sage
Salvia munzii
55. Canyon Sunflower
Venegasia carpesioides
56. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
57. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
58. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
59. Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis var. villosa
60. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
61. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
62. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
63. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
64. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
65. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
66. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
67. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
68. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
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. Spreading Fleabane
Erigeron divergens
74. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
75. California Gilia
Gilia achilleifolia
76. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
77. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
78. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
79. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
80. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
81. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
82. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
83. Thimbleberry
Rubus nutkanus
84. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
85. Rancheria Clover
Trifolium albopurpureum
86. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
87. Whitetip Clover
Trifolium variegatum
88. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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