This list shows 75 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. Bunchleaf Penstemon
Penstemon heterophyllus
7. California Hummingbird Sage
Salvia spathacea
8. Black Sage
Salvia mellifera
9. California Bush Sunflower
Encelia californica
10. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
11. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
12. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
13. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
14. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
15. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
16. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
17. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
18. Beach Strawberry
Fragaria chiloensis
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. Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
24. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
25. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
26. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
27. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
28. Deer Brush
Ceanothus integerrimus
29. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
30. Giant Coreopsis
Coreopsis gigantea
31. Coastal Buckwheat
Eriogonum cinereum
32. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
33. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
34. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
35. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
36. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
37. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
38. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
39. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
40. Yerba Buena
Micromeria douglasii
41. Chalk Dudleya
Dudleya pulverulenta
42. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
43. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
44. Seacliff Buckwheat
Eriogonum parvifolium
45. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
46. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
47. Broadleaf Lupine
Lupinus latifolius
48. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
49. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
50. Canyon Sunflower
Venegasia carpesioides
51. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
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. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
58. Splitawn Sedge
Carex tumulicola
59. Hummingbird Trumpet
Epilobium canum subsp. angustifolium
60. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
61. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
62. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
63. Sea Lettuce
Dudleya caespitosa
64. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
65. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
66. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
67. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
68. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
69. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
70. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
71. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
72. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
73. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
74. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
75. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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