This list shows 87 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. Bunchleaf Penstemon
Penstemon heterophyllus
7. California Hummingbird Sage
Salvia spathacea
8. Black Sage
Salvia mellifera
9. Palmer’s Indian Mallow
Abutilon palmeri
10. California Bush Sunflower
Encelia californica
11. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
12. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
13. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
14. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
15. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
16. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
17. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
18. Beach Strawberry
Fragaria chiloensis
19. Southern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum capillus-veneris
20. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
21. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
22. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
23. Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
24. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
25. Creeping Snowberry
Symphoricarpos mollis
26. Scarlet Bugler
Penstemon centranthifolius
27. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
28. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
29. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
30. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
31. Deer Brush
Ceanothus integerrimus
32. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
33. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
34. Coastal Buckwheat
Eriogonum cinereum
35. Conejo Buckwheat
Eriogonum crocatum
36. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
37. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
38. Southern Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
39. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
40. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
41. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
42. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
43. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
44. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
45. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
46. Chalk Dudleya
Dudleya pulverulenta
47. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
48. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
49. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
50. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
51. Broadleaf Lupine
Lupinus latifolius
52. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
53. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
54. Chaparral Whitethorn
Ceanothus leucodermis
55. Eastwood’s Manzanita
Arctostaphylos glandulosa
56. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
57. Canyon Sunflower
Venegasia carpesioides
58. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
59. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
60. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
61. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
62. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
63. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
64. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
65. Hummingbird Trumpet
Epilobium canum subsp. angustifolium
66. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
67. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
68. Mountain Coyote Mint
Monardella odoratissima
69. Bitter Root
Lewisia rediviva
70. Canyon Liveforever
Dudleya cymosa
71. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
72. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
73. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
74. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
75. Foxtail Pricklegrass
Sporobolus alopecuroides
76. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
77. California Gilia
Gilia achilleifolia
78. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
79. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
80. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
81. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
82. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
83. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
84. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
85. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
86. Rancheria Clover
Trifolium albopurpureum
87. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
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