This list shows 81 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. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
4. California Fuchsia
Epilobium canum
5. Idaho Fescue
Festuca idahoensis
6. Evergreen Huckleberry
Vaccinium ovatum
7. Western Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium bellum
8. Coyote Mint
Monardella villosa
9. Bunchleaf Penstemon
Penstemon heterophyllus
10. Sulfurflower Buckwheat
Eriogonum umbellatum
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. Oregon Grape
Mahonia aquifolium
17. Tufted Hairgrass
Deschampsia cespitosa
18. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
19. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
20. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
21. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
22. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
23. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
24. Beach Strawberry
Fragaria chiloensis
25. Common Woolly Sunflower
Eriophyllum lanatum
26. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
27. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
28. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
29. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
30. California Wild Grape
Vitis californica
31. Creeping Snowberry
Symphoricarpos mollis
32. Scarlet Bugler
Penstemon centranthifolius
33. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
34. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
35. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
36. Douglas’ Meadowfoam
Limnanthes douglasii
37. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
38. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
39. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
40. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
41. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
42. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
43. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
44. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
45. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
46. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
47. Yerba Buena
Micromeria douglasii
48. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
49. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus var. laevigatus
50. Licorice Fern
Polypodium glycyrrhiza
51. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
52. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
53. Broadleaf Lupine
Lupinus latifolius
54. Oneleaf Onion
Allium unifolium
55. Birdcage Evening Primrose
Oenothera deltoides
56. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
57. Eastwood’s Manzanita
Arctostaphylos glandulosa
58. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
59. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
60. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
61. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum subsp. amplexicaule
62. Splitawn Sedge
Carex tumulicola
63. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
64. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
65. Bitter Root
Lewisia rediviva
66. Canyon Liveforever
Dudleya cymosa
67. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
68. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
69. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
70. California Gilia
Gilia achilleifolia
71. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
72. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
73. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
74. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
75. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
76. Thimbleberry
Rubus nutkanus
77. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
78. Rancheria Clover
Trifolium albopurpureum
79. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
80. Whitetip Clover
Trifolium variegatum
81. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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