This list shows 78 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. Black Sage
Salvia mellifera
8. Palmer’s Indian Mallow
Abutilon palmeri
9. California Bush Sunflower
Encelia californica
10. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
11. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
12. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
13. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
14. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
15. Southern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum capillus-veneris
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. Catalina Currant
Ribes viburnifolium
22. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
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. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
31. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
32. Southern Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
33. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
34. Lewis Flax
Linum lewisii
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. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
45. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
46. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
47. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
48. Chaparral Whitethorn
Ceanothus leucodermis
49. Eastwood’s Manzanita
Arctostaphylos glandulosa
50. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
51. Munz’s Sage
Salvia munzii
52. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
53. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
54. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
55. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
56. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
57. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
58. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
59. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
60. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
61. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
62. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
63. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
64. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
65. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
66. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
67. Spreading Fleabane
Erigeron divergens
68. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
69. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
70. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
71. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
72. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
73. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
74. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
75. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
76. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
77. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
78. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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