This list shows 62 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. 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. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
16. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
17. Beach Strawberry
Fragaria chiloensis
18. Southern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum capillus-veneris
19. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
20. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
21. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
22. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
23. Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
24. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
25. Scarlet Bugler
Penstemon centranthifolius
26. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
27. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
28. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
29. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
30. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
31. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
32. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
33. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
34. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
35. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
36. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
37. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
38. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
39. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
40. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
41. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
42. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
43. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
44. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
45. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
46. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
47. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
48. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
49. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
50. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
51. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
52. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
53. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
54. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
55. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
56. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
57. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
58. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
59. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
60. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
61. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
62. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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