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Native Plants suitable for Ground Covers

Botanical Name Common Name

Arctostaphylus uva-ursi

Bearberry, Kinnick-Kinnick

A. santii 'Emerald Green'

Emerald green bearberry

Artemisia frigida

Fringed sage

Bouteloua gracilis

Blue grama

Buchloe dactyloides

Buffalo grass

Callirhoe involucrata

Poppy mallow, Winecups

Erigonum umbellatum

Sulfur flower

Gaillardia grandiflora

Blanket flower

Melampodium leucanthemum

Blackfoot daisy

Mirabilis multiflora

Four-o-clock

Oenothera caespitosa

Creeping primrose

Penstemon whippleanus, pinnifolius

Rocky mountain penstemon

Psilostrophe tagetina

Paperflower

Ratibida columnifera

Coneflower

Rhus trilobata

Creeping sumac

Verbena bipinnatifolia

Verbena

Zauschneria californica

Hummingbird trumpet

Zinnia grandiflora

Desert zinnia

Go to nmmastergardeners.org/ to find these and other articles in a pdf. format that you may use to print out a book with much of this material from that web site. Those articles, however, may not have been modified since they were originally printed in 2001.

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