This list shows 70 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. California Hummingbird Sage
Salvia spathacea
7. Black Sage
Salvia mellifera
8. Palmer’s Indian Mallow
Abutilon palmeri
9. California Bush Sunflower
Encelia californica
10. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
11. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
12. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
13. Beach Strawberry
Fragaria chiloensis
14. Southern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum capillus-veneris
15. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
16. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
17. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
18. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
19. Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
20. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
21. Creeping Snowberry
Symphoricarpos mollis
22. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
23. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
24. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
25. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
26. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
27. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
28. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
29. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
30. Southern Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
31. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
32. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
33. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
34. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
35. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
36. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
37. Chalk Dudleya
Dudleya pulverulenta
38. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
39. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
40. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
41. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
42. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
43. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
44. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
45. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
46. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
47. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
48. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
49. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
50. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
51. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
52. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
53. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
54. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
55. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
56. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
57. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
58. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
59. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
60. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
61. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
62. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
63. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
64. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
65. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
66. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
67. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
68. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
69. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
70. Silverweed Cinquefoil
Potentilla anserina
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