This list shows 78 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. Creeping Barberry
Mahonia repens
4. California Fuchsia
Epilobium canum
5. Skunkbush Sumac
Rhus trilobata
6. Western Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium bellum
7. Desert Globemallow
Sphaeralcea ambigua
8. Black Sage
Salvia mellifera
9. California Bush Sunflower
Encelia californica
10. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
11. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
12. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
13. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
14. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
15. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
16. Southern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum capillus-veneris
17. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
18. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
19. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
20. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
21. Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
22. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
23. Desert Marigold
Baileya multiradiata
24. Scarlet Bugler
Penstemon centranthifolius
25. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
26. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
27. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
28. Deer Brush
Ceanothus integerrimus
29. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
30. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
31. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
32. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
33. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
34. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
35. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
36. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
37. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
38. Chalk Dudleya
Dudleya pulverulenta
39. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
40. Colorado Four O’Clock
Mirabilis multiflora
41. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
42. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
43. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
44. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
45. Birdcage Evening Primrose
Oenothera deltoides
46. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
47. Chaparral Whitethorn
Ceanothus leucodermis
48. Eastwood’s Manzanita
Arctostaphylos glandulosa
49. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
50. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
51. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
52. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
53. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
54. Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis var. villosa
55. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
56. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
57. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
58. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
59. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
60. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
61. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
62. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
63. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
64. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
65. Spreading Fleabane
Erigeron divergens
66. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
67. California Lilac
Ceanothus pauciflorus
68. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
69. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
70. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea
71. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
72. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
73. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
74. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
75. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
76. Rancheria Clover
Trifolium albopurpureum
77. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
78. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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