This list shows 90 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. Creeping Barberry
Mahonia repens
5. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
6. California Fuchsia
Epilobium canum
7. Skunkbush Sumac
Rhus trilobata
8. Western Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium bellum
9. Bunchleaf Penstemon
Penstemon heterophyllus
10. Sulfurflower Buckwheat
Eriogonum umbellatum
11. Desert Globemallow
Sphaeralcea ambigua
12. Black Sage
Salvia mellifera
13. California Bush Sunflower
Encelia californica
14. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
15. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
16. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
17. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
18. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
19. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
20. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
21. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
22. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
23. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
24. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
25. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
26. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
27. Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
28. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
29. Desert Marigold
Baileya multiradiata
30. Creeping Snowberry
Symphoricarpos mollis
31. Scarlet Bugler
Penstemon centranthifolius
32. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
33. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
34. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
35. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
36. Deer Brush
Ceanothus integerrimus
37. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
38. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
39. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
40. Southern Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
41. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
42. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
43. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
44. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
45. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
46. Southern Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus
47. Colorado Four O’Clock
Mirabilis multiflora
48. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
49. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus var. laevigatus
50. Whitethorn Ceanothus
Ceanothus cordulatus
51. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
52. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
53. Broadleaf Lupine
Lupinus latifolius
54. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
55. Birdcage Evening Primrose
Oenothera deltoides
56. Chaparral Whitethorn
Ceanothus leucodermis
57. Eastwood’s Manzanita
Arctostaphylos glandulosa
58. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
59. Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
60. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
61. White Sagebrush
Artemisia ludoviciana subsp. albula
62. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
63. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
64. Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis var. villosa
65. Grape Soda Lupine
Lupinus excubitus
66. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
67. Woolly Desert Marigold
Baileya pleniradiata
68. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
69. Hummingbird Trumpet
Epilobium canum subsp. angustifolium
70. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
71. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
72. Bitter Root
Lewisia rediviva
73. Canyon Liveforever
Dudleya cymosa
74. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
75. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
76. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
77. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
78. Spreading Fleabane
Erigeron divergens
79. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
80. California Lilac
Ceanothus pauciflorus
81. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
82. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
83. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
84. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
85. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
86. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
87. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
88. Rancheria Clover
Trifolium albopurpureum
89. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
90. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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