This list shows 85 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. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
2. California Poppy
Eschscholzia californica
3. Crevice Alumroot
Heuchera micrantha
4. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
5. California Fuchsia
Epilobium canum
6. Idaho Fescue
Festuca idahoensis
7. Evergreen Huckleberry
Vaccinium ovatum
8. Western Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium bellum
9. Coyote Mint
Monardella villosa
10. Bunchleaf Penstemon
Penstemon heterophyllus
11. Sulfurflower Buckwheat
Eriogonum umbellatum
12. California Fescue
Festuca californica
13. California Hummingbird Sage
Salvia spathacea
14. Black Sage
Salvia mellifera
15. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
16. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
17. Oregon Grape
Mahonia aquifolium
18. Tufted Hairgrass
Deschampsia cespitosa
19. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
20. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
21. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
22. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
23. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
24. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
25. Beach Strawberry
Fragaria chiloensis
26. Common Woolly Sunflower
Eriophyllum lanatum
27. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
28. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
29. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
30. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
31. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
32. California Wild Grape
Vitis californica
33. Baldhip Rose
Rosa gymnocarpa
34. Creeping Snowberry
Symphoricarpos mollis
35. Scarlet Bugler
Penstemon centranthifolius
36. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
37. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
38. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
39. Douglas’ Meadowfoam
Limnanthes douglasii
40. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
41. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
42. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
43. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
44. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
45. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
46. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
47. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
48. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
49. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
50. Yerba Buena
Micromeria douglasii
51. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
52. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus var. laevigatus
53. Licorice Fern
Polypodium glycyrrhiza
54. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
55. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
56. Broadleaf Lupine
Lupinus latifolius
57. Oneleaf Onion
Allium unifolium
58. Birdcage Evening Primrose
Oenothera deltoides
59. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
60. Eastwood’s Manzanita
Arctostaphylos glandulosa
61. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
62. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
63. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
64. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum subsp. amplexicaule
65. Splitawn Sedge
Carex tumulicola
66. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
67. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
68. Bitter Root
Lewisia rediviva
69. Canyon Liveforever
Dudleya cymosa
70. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
71. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
72. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
73. Foxtail Pricklegrass
Sporobolus alopecuroides
74. California Gilia
Gilia achilleifolia
75. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
76. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
77. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
78. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
79. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
80. Thimbleberry
Rubus nutkanus
81. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
82. Rancheria Clover
Trifolium albopurpureum
83. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
84. Whitetip Clover
Trifolium variegatum
85. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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