This list shows 90 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. 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. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
13. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
14. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
15. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
16. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
17. Southern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum capillus-veneris
18. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
19. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
20. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
21. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
22. Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
23. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
24. Creeping Snowberry
Symphoricarpos mollis
25. Scarlet Bugler
Penstemon centranthifolius
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. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
34. Sea Dahlia
Coreopsis maritima
35. Southern Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
36. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
37. Lewis Flax
Linum lewisii
38. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
39. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
40. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
41. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
42. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
43. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
44. Chalk Dudleya
Dudleya pulverulenta
45. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
46. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
47. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
48. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
49. Broadleaf Lupine
Lupinus latifolius
50. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
51. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
52. Chaparral Whitethorn
Ceanothus leucodermis
53. San Diego Sedge
Carex spissa
54. Eastwood’s Manzanita
Arctostaphylos glandulosa
55. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
56. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
57. Munz’s Sage
Salvia munzii
58. Canyon Sunflower
Venegasia carpesioides
59. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
60. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
61. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
62. Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis var. villosa
63. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
64. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
65. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
66. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
67. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
68. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
69. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
70. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
71. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
72. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
73. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
74. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
75. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
76. Spreading Fleabane
Erigeron divergens
77. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
78. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
79. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
80. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
81. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
82. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
83. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
84. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
85. Thimbleberry
Rubus nutkanus
86. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
87. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
88. Whitetip Clover
Trifolium variegatum
89. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
90. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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