This list shows 83 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. Black Sage
Salvia mellifera
8. Palmer’s Indian Mallow
Abutilon palmeri
9. California Bush Sunflower
Encelia californica
10. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
11. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
12. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
13. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
14. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
15. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
16. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
17. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
18. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
19. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
20. Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
21. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
22. Scarlet Bugler
Penstemon centranthifolius
23. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
24. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
25. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
26. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
27. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
28. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
29. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
30. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
31. Del Mar Manzanita
Arctostaphylos glandulosa subsp. crassifolia
32. Southern Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
33. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
34. Lewis Flax
Linum lewisii
35. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
36. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
37. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
38. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
39. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
40. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
41. Chalk Dudleya
Dudleya pulverulenta
42. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
43. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
44. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
45. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
46. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
47. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
48. Chaparral Whitethorn
Ceanothus leucodermis
49. San Diego Sedge
Carex spissa
50. Eastwood’s Manzanita
Arctostaphylos glandulosa
51. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
52. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
53. Munz’s Sage
Salvia munzii
54. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
55. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
56. Southwestern Mock Vervain
Glandularia gooddingii
57. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
58. Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis var. villosa
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. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
65. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
66. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
67. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
68. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
69. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
70. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
71. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
72. Spreading Fleabane
Erigeron divergens
73. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
74. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
75. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
76. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
77. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
78. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
79. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
80. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
81. Rancheria Clover
Trifolium albopurpureum
82. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
83. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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