This list shows 80 grasses 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 Fescue
Festuca californica
2. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
3. Deergrass
Muhlenbergia rigens
4. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
5. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
6. Purple Threeawn
Aristida purpurea
7. Sand Dropseed
Sporobolus cryptandrus
8. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
9. California Brome
Bromus carinatus
10. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
11. Common Rush
Juncus effusus
12. Common Spike-Rush
Eleocharis palustris
13. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
14. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
15. Hardstem Bulrush
Schoenoplectus acutus
16. Rice Cutgrass
Leersia oryzoides
17. Panicled Bulrush
Scirpus microcarpus
18. Baltic Rush
Juncus balticus
19. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
20. Nodding Needlegrass
Nassella cernua
21. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
22. Bushy Bluestem
Andropogon glomeratus
23. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
24. Torrey’s Rush
Juncus torreyi
25. Sea Clubrush
Bolboschoenus maritimus
26. Purple Needlegrass
Nassella pulchra
27. Foothill Needlegrass
Nassella lepida
28. Basket Rush
Juncus textilis
29. Sand Spikerush
Eleocharis montevidensis
30. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
31. Chairmaker’s Bulrush
Schoenoplectus americanus
32. Foxtail Barley
Hordeum jubatum
33. Meadow Barley
Hordeum brachyantherum
34. Golden Sedge
Carex aurea
35. Witchgrass
Panicum capillare
36. Sixweeks Fescue
Vulpia octoflora
37. Scratchgrass
Muhlenbergia asperifolia
38. Big Squirreltail
Elymus multisetus
39. Needle Spikerush
Eleocharis acicularis
40. Woolly Sedge
Carex pellita
41. Seacoast Bulrush
Bolboschoenus robustus
42. Bearded Sprangletop
Diplachne fusca
43. Muttongrass
Poa fendleriana
44. Small Fescue
Festuca microstachys
45. Red-Rooted Flatsedge
Cyperus erythrorhizos
46. Beaked Spikerush
Eleocharis rostellata
47. California Satintail
Imperata brevifolia
48. Nodding Brome
Bromus anomalus
49. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
50. Annual Hairgrass
Deschampsia danthonioides
51. Douglas’ Sedge
Carex douglasii
52. Santa Barbara Sedge
Carex barbarae
53. Pale Spikerush
Eleocharis macrostachya
54. Tall Flatsedge
Cyperus eragrostis
55. Broad-Glumed Wheatgrass
Elymus violaceus
56. Toad Rush
Juncus bufonius
57. Mountain Brome
Bromus marginatus
58. Spike Bentgrass
Agrostis exarata
59. Prairie Wedgescale
Sphenopholis obtusata
60. California Bulrush
Schoenoplectus californicus
61. Pointed Rush
Juncus oxymeris
62. Brown-Headed Rush
Juncus phaeocephalus
63. Swamp Sedge
Carex senta
64. Fragrant Flatsedge
Cyperus odoratus
65. Desert Needlegrass
Stipa speciosa
66. Smooth Flatsedge
Cyperus laevigatus
67. Chinook Brome
Bromus laevipes
68. Indian Ricegrass
Eriocoma hymenoides
69. Mexican Rush
Juncus mexicanus
70. Nuttall’s Alkaligrass
Puccinellia nuttalliana
71. Little Barley
Hordeum pusillum
72. Crested Needlegrass
Eriocoma coronata
73. Tapertip Flatsedge
Cyperus acuminatus
74. Littleseed Muhly
Muhlenbergia microsperma
75. Wright Threeawn
Aristida wrightii
76. Wrinkled Rush
Juncus dubius
77. Wrinkled Rush
Juncus rugulosus
78. Sixweeks Threeawn
Aristida adscensionis
79. Mexican Sprangletop
Diplachne fusca subsp. uninervia
80. Schott’s Sedge
Carex schottii
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