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