This list shows 73 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 Fescue
Festuca californica
7. California Hummingbird Sage
Salvia spathacea
8. Black Sage
Salvia mellifera
9. Palmer’s Indian Mallow
Abutilon palmeri
10. California Bush Sunflower
Encelia californica
11. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
12. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
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. Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
21. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
22. Creeping Snowberry
Symphoricarpos mollis
23. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
24. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
25. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
26. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
27. Deer Brush
Ceanothus integerrimus
28. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
29. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
30. Coastal Buckwheat
Eriogonum cinereum
31. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
32. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
33. Southern Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
34. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
35. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
36. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
37. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
38. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
39. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
40. Yerba Buena
Micromeria douglasii
41. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
42. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
43. Seacliff Buckwheat
Eriogonum parvifolium
44. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
45. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
46. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
47. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
48. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
49. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
50. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
51. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
52. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
53. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
54. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
55. Hummingbird Trumpet
Epilobium canum subsp. angustifolium
56. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
57. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
58. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
59. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
60. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
61. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
62. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
63. California Gilia
Gilia achilleifolia
64. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
65. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
66. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
67. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
68. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
69. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
70. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
71. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
72. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
73. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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