This list shows 72 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. 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. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
14. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
15. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
16. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
17. Beach Strawberry
Fragaria chiloensis
18. Southern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum capillus-veneris
19. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
20. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
21. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
22. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
23. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
24. Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
25. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
26. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
27. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
28. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
29. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
30. Deer Brush
Ceanothus integerrimus
31. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
32. Golden Currant
Ribes aureum var. gracillimum
33. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
34. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
35. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
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. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
43. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
44. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
45. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
46. Broadleaf Lupine
Lupinus latifolius
47. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
48. Eastwood’s Manzanita
Arctostaphylos glandulosa
49. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
50. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
51. Pointleaf Manzanita
Arctostaphylos pungens
52. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
53. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
54. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
55. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
56. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
57. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
58. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
59. Bitter Root
Lewisia rediviva
60. Canyon Liveforever
Dudleya cymosa
61. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
62. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
63. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
64. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
65. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
66. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
67. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
68. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
69. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
70. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
71. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
72. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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