This list shows 65 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. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
13. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
14. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
15. Beach Strawberry
Fragaria chiloensis
16. Southern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum capillus-veneris
17. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
18. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
19. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
20. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
21. Creeping Snowberry
Symphoricarpos mollis
22. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
23. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
24. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
25. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
26. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
27. Giant Coreopsis
Coreopsis gigantea
28. Coastal Buckwheat
Eriogonum cinereum
29. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
30. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
31. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
32. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
33. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
34. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
35. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
36. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
37. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
38. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
39. Seacliff Buckwheat
Eriogonum parvifolium
40. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
41. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
42. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
43. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
44. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
45. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
46. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
47. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
48. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
49. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
50. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
51. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
52. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
53. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
54. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
55. California Gilia
Gilia achilleifolia
56. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
57. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
58. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
59. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
60. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
61. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
62. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
63. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
64. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
65. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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