This list shows 64 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. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
14. Beach Strawberry
Fragaria chiloensis
15. Southern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum capillus-veneris
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. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
22. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
23. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
24. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
25. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
26. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
27. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
28. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
29. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
30. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
31. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
32. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
33. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
34. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
35. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
36. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
37. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
38. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
39. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
40. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
41. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
42. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
43. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
44. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
45. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
46. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
47. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
48. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
49. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
50. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
51. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
52. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
53. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
54. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
55. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
56. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
57. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
58. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
59. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
60. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
61. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
62. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
63. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
64. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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