This list shows 66 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. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
20. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
21. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
22. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
23. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
24. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
25. Giant Coreopsis
Coreopsis gigantea
26. Coastal Buckwheat
Eriogonum cinereum
27. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
28. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
29. Southern Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
30. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
31. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
32. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
33. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
34. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
35. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
36. Chalk Dudleya
Dudleya pulverulenta
37. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
38. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
39. Seacliff Buckwheat
Eriogonum parvifolium
40. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
41. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
42. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
43. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
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. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
55. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
56. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
57. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
58. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
59. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
60. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
61. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
62. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
63. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
64. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
65. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
66. Silverweed Cinquefoil
Potentilla anserina
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