This list shows 92 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. Creeping Barberry
Mahonia repens
4. California Fuchsia
Epilobium canum
5. Skunkbush Sumac
Rhus trilobata
6. Western Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium bellum
7. Desert Globemallow
Sphaeralcea ambigua
8. California Hummingbird Sage
Salvia spathacea
9. Black Sage
Salvia mellifera
10. Palmer’s Indian Mallow
Abutilon palmeri
11. California Bush Sunflower
Encelia californica
12. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
13. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
14. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
15. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
16. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
17. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
18. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
19. Southern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum capillus-veneris
20. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
21. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
22. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
23. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
24. Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
25. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
26. Desert Marigold
Baileya multiradiata
27. Scarlet Bugler
Penstemon centranthifolius
28. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
29. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
30. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
31. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
32. Deer Brush
Ceanothus integerrimus
33. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
34. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
35. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
36. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
37. Southern Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
38. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
39. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
40. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
41. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
42. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
43. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
44. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
45. Chalk Dudleya
Dudleya pulverulenta
46. Colorado Four O’Clock
Mirabilis multiflora
47. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
48. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus var. laevigatus
49. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
50. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
51. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
52. Birdcage Evening Primrose
Oenothera deltoides
53. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
54. Chaparral Whitethorn
Ceanothus leucodermis
55. Eastwood’s Manzanita
Arctostaphylos glandulosa
56. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
57. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
58. Canyon Sunflower
Venegasia carpesioides
59. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
60. Pointleaf Manzanita
Arctostaphylos pungens
61. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
62. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
63. Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis var. villosa
64. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
65. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
66. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
67. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
68. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
69. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
70. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
71. Bitter Root
Lewisia rediviva
72. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
73. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
74. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
75. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
76. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
77. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
78. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
79. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
80. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
81. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
82. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
83. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
84. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
85. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
86. Thimbleberry
Rubus nutkanus
87. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
88. Rancheria Clover
Trifolium albopurpureum
89. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
90. Whitetip Clover
Trifolium variegatum
91. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
92. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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