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. 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. Coyote Mint
Monardella villosa
7. Bunchleaf Penstemon
Penstemon heterophyllus
8. California Hummingbird Sage
Salvia spathacea
9. Black Sage
Salvia mellifera
10. Palmer’s Indian Mallow
Abutilon palmeri
11. California Bush Sunflower
Encelia californica
12. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
13. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
14. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
15. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
16. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
17. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
18. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
19. Beach Strawberry
Fragaria chiloensis
20. Southern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum capillus-veneris
21. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
22. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
23. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
24. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
25. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
26. Scarlet Bugler
Penstemon centranthifolius
27. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
28. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
29. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
30. Deer Brush
Ceanothus integerrimus
31. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
32. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
33. Golden Currant
Ribes aureum var. gracillimum
34. Coastal Buckwheat
Eriogonum cinereum
35. Conejo Buckwheat
Eriogonum crocatum
36. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
37. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
38. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
39. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
40. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
41. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
42. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
43. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
44. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
45. Yerba Buena
Micromeria douglasii
46. Chalk Dudleya
Dudleya pulverulenta
47. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
48. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
49. Seacliff Buckwheat
Eriogonum parvifolium
50. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
51. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
52. Broadleaf Lupine
Lupinus latifolius
53. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
54. Chaparral Whitethorn
Ceanothus leucodermis
55. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
56. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
57. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
58. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
59. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
60. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
61. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
62. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
63. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
64. Hummingbird Trumpet
Epilobium canum subsp. angustifolium
65. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
66. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
67. Canyon Liveforever
Dudleya cymosa
68. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
69. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
70. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
71. California Gilia
Gilia achilleifolia
72. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
73. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
74. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
75. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
76. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
77. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
78. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
79. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
80. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
81. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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