This list shows 85 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 Hummingbird Sage
Salvia spathacea
7. Black Sage
Salvia mellifera
8. Palmer’s Indian Mallow
Abutilon palmeri
9. California Bush Sunflower
Encelia californica
10. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
11. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
12. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
13. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
14. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
15. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
16. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
17. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
18. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
19. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
20. Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
21. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
22. Creeping Snowberry
Symphoricarpos mollis
23. Scarlet Bugler
Penstemon centranthifolius
24. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
25. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
26. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
27. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
28. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
29. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
30. Giant Coreopsis
Coreopsis gigantea
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. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
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. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
50. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
51. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
52. Canyon Sunflower
Venegasia carpesioides
53. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
54. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
55. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
56. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
57. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
58. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
59. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
60. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
61. Hummingbird Trumpet
Epilobium canum subsp. angustifolium
62. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
63. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
64. Bitter Root
Lewisia rediviva
65. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
66. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
67. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
68. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
69. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
70. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
71. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
72. California Gilia
Gilia achilleifolia
73. Seashore Vervain
Verbena litoralis
74. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
75. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
76. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
77. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
78. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
79. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
80. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
81. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
82. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
83. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
84. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
85. Silverweed Cinquefoil
Potentilla anserina
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