This list shows 68 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. Western Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium bellum
6. California Hummingbird Sage
Salvia spathacea
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. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
13. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
14. Beach Strawberry
Fragaria chiloensis
15. Southern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum capillus-veneris
16. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
17. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
18. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
19. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
20. Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
21. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
22. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
23. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
24. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
25. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
26. Coastal Buckwheat
Eriogonum cinereum
27. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
28. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
29. Southern Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
30. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
31. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
32. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
33. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
34. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
35. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
36. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
37. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
38. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
39. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
40. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
41. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
42. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
43. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
44. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
45. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
46. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
47. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
48. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
49. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
50. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
51. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
52. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
53. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
54. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
55. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
56. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
57. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
58. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
59. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
60. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
61. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
62. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
63. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
64. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
65. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
66. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
67. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
68. Silverweed Cinquefoil
Potentilla anserina
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