This list shows 93 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. Creeping Barberry
Mahonia repens
5. California Fuchsia
Epilobium canum
6. Skunkbush Sumac
Rhus trilobata
7. Western Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium bellum
8. Bunchleaf Penstemon
Penstemon heterophyllus
9. California Hummingbird Sage
Salvia spathacea
10. Black Sage
Salvia mellifera
11. Palmer’s Indian Mallow
Abutilon palmeri
12. California Bush Sunflower
Encelia californica
13. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
14. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
15. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
16. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
17. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
18. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
19. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
20. Southern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum capillus-veneris
21. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
22. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
23. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
24. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
25. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
26. Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
27. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
28. Creeping Snowberry
Symphoricarpos mollis
29. Scarlet Bugler
Penstemon centranthifolius
30. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
31. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
32. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
33. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
34. Deer Brush
Ceanothus integerrimus
35. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
36. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
37. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
38. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
39. Southern Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
40. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
41. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
42. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
43. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
44. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
45. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
46. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
47. Chalk Dudleya
Dudleya pulverulenta
48. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
49. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
50. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus var. laevigatus
51. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
52. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
53. Broadleaf Lupine
Lupinus latifolius
54. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
55. Birdcage Evening Primrose
Oenothera deltoides
56. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
57. Chaparral Whitethorn
Ceanothus leucodermis
58. Eastwood’s Manzanita
Arctostaphylos glandulosa
59. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
60. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
61. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
62. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
63. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
64. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
65. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
66. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
67. Leafstem Tickseed
Coreopsis calliopsidea
68. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
69. Hummingbird Trumpet
Epilobium canum subsp. angustifolium
70. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
71. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
72. Bitter Root
Lewisia rediviva
73. Canyon Liveforever
Dudleya cymosa
74. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
75. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
76. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
77. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
78. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
79. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
80. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
81. California Lilac
Ceanothus pauciflorus
82. California Gilia
Gilia achilleifolia
83. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
84. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
85. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
86. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
87. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
88. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
89. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
90. Rancheria Clover
Trifolium albopurpureum
91. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
92. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
93. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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