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