This list shows 87 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. Mexican Gold Poppy
Eschscholzia californica subsp. mexicana
14. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
15. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
16. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
17. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
18. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
19. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
20. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
21. Beach Strawberry
Fragaria chiloensis
22. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
23. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
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. Golden Currant
Ribes aureum var. gracillimum
38. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
39. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
40. Southern Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
41. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
42. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
43. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
44. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
45. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
46. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
47. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
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. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
54. Chaparral Whitethorn
Ceanothus leucodermis
55. Eastwood’s Manzanita
Arctostaphylos glandulosa
56. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
57. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
58. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
59. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
60. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
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. Hummingbird Trumpet
Epilobium canum subsp. angustifolium
67. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
68. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
69. Bitter Root
Lewisia rediviva
70. Canyon Liveforever
Dudleya cymosa
71. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
72. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
73. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
74. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
75. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
76. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
77. California Gilia
Gilia achilleifolia
78. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
79. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
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. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
87. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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