This list shows 86 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. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
2. California Poppy
Eschscholzia californica
3. White Sage
Salvia apiana
4. Purple Sage
Salvia leucophylla
5. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
6. California Fuchsia
Epilobium canum
7. Evergreen Huckleberry
Vaccinium ovatum
8. Western Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium bellum
9. Coyote Mint
Monardella villosa
10. Point Reyes Ceanothus
Ceanothus gloriosus
11. California Fescue
Festuca californica
12. California Hummingbird Sage
Salvia spathacea
13. Black Sage
Salvia mellifera
14. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
15. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
16. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
17. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
18. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
19. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
20. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
21. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
22. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
23. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
24. California Wild Grape
Vitis californica
25. Creeping Snowberry
Symphoricarpos mollis
26. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
27. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
28. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
29. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
30. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
31. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
32. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
33. Carmel Ceanothus
Ceanothus griseus
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. Yerba Buena
Micromeria douglasii
42. Chalk Dudleya
Dudleya pulverulenta
43. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
44. Monterey Ceanothus
Ceanothus rigidus
45. Seacliff Buckwheat
Eriogonum parvifolium
46. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
47. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
48. Broadleaf Lupine
Lupinus latifolius
49. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
50. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
51. Wartleaf Ceanothus
Ceanothus papillosus
52. Eastwood’s Manzanita
Arctostaphylos glandulosa
53. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
54. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
55. Wavyleaf Ceanothus
Ceanothus foliosus
56. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
57. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
58. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
59. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum subsp. amplexicaule
60. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
61. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
62. Splitawn Sedge
Carex tumulicola
63. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
64. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
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. Spreading Fleabane
Erigeron divergens
72. California Gilia
Gilia achilleifolia
73. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
74. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
75. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
76. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
77. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
78. Thimbleberry
Rubus nutkanus
79. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
80. Rancheria Clover
Trifolium albopurpureum
81. Coastal Sand Verbena
Abronia latifolia
82. Common Yellow Woodsorrel
Oxalis stricta
83. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
84. Whitetip Clover
Trifolium variegatum
85. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
86. Silverweed Cinquefoil
Potentilla anserina
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