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. 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. Bunchleaf Penstemon
Penstemon heterophyllus
8. California Hummingbird Sage
Salvia spathacea
9. Black Sage
Salvia mellifera
10. Palmer’s Indian Mallow
Abutilon palmeri
11. California Bush Sunflower
Encelia californica
12. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
13. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
14. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
15. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
16. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
17. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
18. Beach Strawberry
Fragaria chiloensis
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. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
24. Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
25. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
26. Creeping Snowberry
Symphoricarpos mollis
27. Scarlet Bugler
Penstemon centranthifolius
28. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
29. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
30. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
31. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
32. Deer Brush
Ceanothus integerrimus
33. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
34. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
35. Coastal Buckwheat
Eriogonum cinereum
36. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
37. Southern Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
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. Chalk Dudleya
Dudleya pulverulenta
46. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
47. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
48. Seacliff Buckwheat
Eriogonum parvifolium
49. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
50. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
51. Broadleaf Lupine
Lupinus latifolius
52. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
53. Eastwood’s Manzanita
Arctostaphylos glandulosa
54. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
55. Canyon Sunflower
Venegasia carpesioides
56. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
57. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
58. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
59. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
60. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
61. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
62. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
63. Hummingbird Trumpet
Epilobium canum subsp. angustifolium
64. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
65. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
66. Canyon Liveforever
Dudleya cymosa
67. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
68. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
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. Spreading Fleabane
Erigeron divergens
74. California Gilia
Gilia achilleifolia
75. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
76. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
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. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
85. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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