This list shows 84 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. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
5. California Fuchsia
Epilobium canum
6. Skunkbush Sumac
Rhus trilobata
7. Western Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium bellum
8. Bunchleaf Penstemon
Penstemon heterophyllus
9. California Fescue
Festuca californica
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. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
18. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
19. Southern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum capillus-veneris
20. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
21. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
22. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
23. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
24. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
25. Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
26. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
27. Scarlet Bugler
Penstemon centranthifolius
28. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
29. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
30. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
31. Deer Brush
Ceanothus integerrimus
32. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
33. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
34. Golden Currant
Ribes aureum var. gracillimum
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. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
42. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
43. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
44. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
45. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
46. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus var. laevigatus
47. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
48. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
49. Broadleaf Lupine
Lupinus latifolius
50. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
51. Birdcage Evening Primrose
Oenothera deltoides
52. Chaparral Whitethorn
Ceanothus leucodermis
53. Eastwood’s Manzanita
Arctostaphylos glandulosa
54. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
55. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
56. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
57. White Sagebrush
Artemisia ludoviciana subsp. albula
58. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
59. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
60. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
61. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
62. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
63. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
64. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
65. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
66. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
67. Bitter Root
Lewisia rediviva
68. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
69. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
70. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
71. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
72. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
73. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
74. California Gilia
Gilia achilleifolia
75. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
76. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
77. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
78. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
79. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
80. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
81. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
82. Rancheria Clover
Trifolium albopurpureum
83. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
84. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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