This list shows 88 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. Palmer’s Indian Mallow
Abutilon palmeri
10. California Bush Sunflower
Encelia californica
11. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
12. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
13. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
14. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
15. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
16. Southern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum capillus-veneris
17. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
18. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
19. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
20. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
21. Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
22. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
23. Creeping Snowberry
Symphoricarpos mollis
24. Scarlet Bugler
Penstemon centranthifolius
25. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
26. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
27. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
28. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
29. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
30. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
31. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
32. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
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. 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. Chaparral Whitethorn
Ceanothus leucodermis
51. San Diego Sedge
Carex spissa
52. Eastwood’s Manzanita
Arctostaphylos glandulosa
53. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
54. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
55. Canyon Sunflower
Venegasia carpesioides
56. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
57. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
58. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
59. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
60. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
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. Bitter Root
Lewisia rediviva
68. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
69. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
70. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
71. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
72. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
73. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
74. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
75. California Gilia
Gilia achilleifolia
76. Seashore Vervain
Verbena litoralis
77. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
78. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
79. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
80. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
81. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
82. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
83. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
84. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
85. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
86. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
87. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
88. Silverweed Cinquefoil
Potentilla anserina
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