This list shows 92 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. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
14. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
15. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
16. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
17. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
18. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
19. Southern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum capillus-veneris
20. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
21. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
22. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
23. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
24. Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
25. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
26. Creeping Snowberry
Symphoricarpos mollis
27. Scarlet Bugler
Penstemon centranthifolius
28. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
29. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
30. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
31. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
32. Deer Brush
Ceanothus integerrimus
33. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
34. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
35. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
36. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
37. Southern Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
38. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
39. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
40. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
41. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
42. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
43. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
44. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
45. Chalk Dudleya
Dudleya pulverulenta
46. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
47. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
48. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus var. laevigatus
49. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
50. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
51. Broadleaf Lupine
Lupinus latifolius
52. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
53. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
54. Chaparral Whitethorn
Ceanothus leucodermis
55. San Diego Sedge
Carex spissa
56. Eastwood’s Manzanita
Arctostaphylos glandulosa
57. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
58. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
59. Canyon Sunflower
Venegasia carpesioides
60. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
61. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
62. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
63. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
64. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
65. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
66. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
67. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
68. Hummingbird Trumpet
Epilobium canum subsp. angustifolium
69. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
70. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
71. Bitter Root
Lewisia rediviva
72. Canyon Liveforever
Dudleya cymosa
73. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
74. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
75. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
76. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
77. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
78. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
79. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
80. California Gilia
Gilia achilleifolia
81. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
82. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
83. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
84. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
85. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
86. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
87. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
88. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
89. Rancheria Clover
Trifolium albopurpureum
90. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
91. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
92. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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