This list shows 57 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. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
13. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
14. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
15. Beach Strawberry
Fragaria chiloensis
16. Southern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum capillus-veneris
17. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
18. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
19. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
20. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
21. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
22. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
23. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
24. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
25. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
26. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
27. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
28. Southern Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
29. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
30. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
31. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
32. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
33. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
34. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
35. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
36. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
37. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
38. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
39. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
40. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
41. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
42. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
43. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
44. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
45. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
46. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
47. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
48. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
49. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
50. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
51. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
52. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
53. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
54. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
55. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
56. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
57. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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