This list shows 81 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. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
4. California Fuchsia
Epilobium canum
5. Evergreen Huckleberry
Vaccinium ovatum
6. Western Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium bellum
7. Coyote Mint
Monardella villosa
8. California Fescue
Festuca californica
9. California Hummingbird Sage
Salvia spathacea
10. Black Sage
Salvia mellifera
11. Hooker’s Manzanita
Arctostaphylos hookeri
12. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
13. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
14. Sea Thrift
Armeria maritima
15. Tufted Hairgrass
Deschampsia cespitosa
16. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
17. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
18. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
19. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
20. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
21. Beach Strawberry
Fragaria chiloensis
22. Common Woolly Sunflower
Eriophyllum lanatum
23. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
24. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
25. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
26. Redwood Sorrel
Oxalis oregana
27. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
28. California Wild Grape
Vitis californica
29. Baldhip Rose
Rosa gymnocarpa
30. Creeping Snowberry
Symphoricarpos mollis
31. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
32. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
33. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
34. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
35. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
36. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
37. Western Fescue
Festuca occidentalis
38. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
39. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
40. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
41. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
42. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
43. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
44. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
45. Yerba Buena
Micromeria douglasii
46. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus var. laevigatus
47. Pajaro Manzanita
Arctostaphylos pajaroensis
48. Monterey Ceanothus
Ceanothus rigidus
49. Seacliff Buckwheat
Eriogonum parvifolium
50. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
51. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
52. Pioneer Violet
Viola glabella
53. Broadleaf Lupine
Lupinus latifolius
54. Sandmat Manzanita
Arctostaphylos pumila
55. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
56. Oneleaf Onion
Allium unifolium
57. Common Whipplea
Whipplea modesta
58. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
59. Wartleaf Ceanothus
Ceanothus papillosus
60. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
61. California Seapink
Armeria maritima subsp. californica
62. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
63. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum subsp. amplexicaule
64. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
65. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
66. Splitawn Sedge
Carex tumulicola
67. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
68. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
69. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
70. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
71. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
72. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
73. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
74. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
75. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
76. Thimbleberry
Rubus nutkanus
77. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
78. Coastal Sand Verbena
Abronia latifolia
79. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
80. Whitetip Clover
Trifolium variegatum
81. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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