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. Catalina Currant
Ribes viburnifolium
22. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
23. Scarlet Bugler
Penstemon centranthifolius
24. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
25. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
26. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
27. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
28. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
29. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
30. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
31. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
32. Southern Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
33. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
34. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
35. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
36. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
37. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
38. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
39. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
40. Chalk Dudleya
Dudleya pulverulenta
41. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
42. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
43. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
44. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
45. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
46. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
47. Chaparral Whitethorn
Ceanothus leucodermis
48. San Diego Sedge
Carex spissa
49. Eastwood’s Manzanita
Arctostaphylos glandulosa
50. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
51. Munz’s Sage
Salvia munzii
52. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
53. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
54. Southwestern Mock Vervain
Glandularia gooddingii
55. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
56. Baja Rose
Rosa minutifolia
57. Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis var. villosa
58. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
59. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
60. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
61. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
62. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
63. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
64. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
65. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
66. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
67. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
68. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
69. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
70. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
71. Spreading Fleabane
Erigeron divergens
72. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
73. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
74. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
75. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
76. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
77. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
78. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
79. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
80. Rancheria Clover
Trifolium albopurpureum
81. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
82. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
83. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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