This list shows 95 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. Crevice Alumroot
Heuchera micrantha
4. Seaside Fleabane
Erigeron glaucus
5. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
6. California Fuchsia
Epilobium canum
7. Idaho Fescue
Festuca idahoensis
8. Evergreen Huckleberry
Vaccinium ovatum
9. Western Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium bellum
10. Coyote Mint
Monardella villosa
11. California Fescue
Festuca californica
12. California Hummingbird Sage
Salvia spathacea
13. Black Sage
Salvia mellifera
14. Beach Wormwood
Artemisia pycnocephala
15. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
16. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
17. Sea Thrift
Armeria maritima
18. Oregon Grape
Mahonia aquifolium
19. Tufted Hairgrass
Deschampsia cespitosa
20. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
21. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
22. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
23. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
24. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
25. Bigflower Tellima
Tellima grandiflora
26. Beach Strawberry
Fragaria chiloensis
27. Western Wild Ginger
Asarum caudatum
28. Common Woolly Sunflower
Eriophyllum lanatum
29. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
30. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
31. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
32. Redwood Sorrel
Oxalis oregana
33. Dwarf Oregon-Grape
Mahonia nervosa
34. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
35. California Wild Grape
Vitis californica
36. Baldhip Rose
Rosa gymnocarpa
37. Creeping Snowberry
Symphoricarpos mollis
38. Hookedspur Violet
Viola adunca
39. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
40. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
41. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
42. Douglas’ Meadowfoam
Limnanthes douglasii
43. Deer Brush
Ceanothus integerrimus
44. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
45. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
46. Western Fescue
Festuca occidentalis
47. Carmel Ceanothus
Ceanothus griseus
48. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
49. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
50. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
51. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
52. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
53. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
54. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
55. Yerba Buena
Micromeria douglasii
56. Siberian Springbeauty
Claytonia sibirica
57. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
58. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus var. laevigatus
59. Monterey Ceanothus
Ceanothus rigidus
60. Seacliff Buckwheat
Eriogonum parvifolium
61. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
62. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
63. Pioneer Violet
Viola glabella
64. Broadleaf Lupine
Lupinus latifolius
65. Threeleaf Foamflower
Tiarella trifoliata
66. Lance Selfheal
Prunella vulgaris var. lanceolata
67. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
68. Oneleaf Onion
Allium unifolium
69. Common Whipplea
Whipplea modesta
70. Wartleaf Ceanothus
Ceanothus papillosus
71. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
72. California Seapink
Armeria maritima subsp. californica
73. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
74. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum subsp. amplexicaule
75. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
76. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
77. Splitawn Sedge
Carex tumulicola
78. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
79. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
80. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
81. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
82. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
83. Sea Lettuce
Dudleya caespitosa
84. California Gilia
Gilia achilleifolia
85. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
86. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
87. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
88. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
89. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
90. Thimbleberry
Rubus nutkanus
91. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
92. Coastal Sand Verbena
Abronia latifolia
93. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
94. Whitetip Clover
Trifolium variegatum
95. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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