This list shows 90 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. Idaho Fescue
Festuca idahoensis
2. California Fescue
Festuca californica
3. Tufted Hairgrass
Deschampsia cespitosa
4. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
5. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
6. Spreading Rush
Juncus patens
7. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
8. Awl-Fruited Sedge
Carex stipata
9. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
10. Sand Dropseed
Sporobolus cryptandrus
11. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
12. California Oatgrass
Danthonia californica
13. California Brome
Bromus carinatus
14. Common Rush
Juncus effusus
15. Slender Rush
Juncus tenuis
16. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
17. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
18. Hardstem Bulrush
Schoenoplectus acutus
19. Rice Cutgrass
Leersia oryzoides
20. Panicled Bulrush
Scirpus microcarpus
21. Baltic Rush
Juncus balticus
22. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
23. Nodding Needlegrass
Nassella cernua
24. Reed Canary Grass
Phalaris arundinacea
25. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
26. Splitawn Sedge
Carex tumulicola
27. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
28. Sea Clubrush
Bolboschoenus maritimus
29. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
30. California Melicgrass
Melica californica
31. Purple Needlegrass
Nassella pulchra
32. Slender Hairgrass
Deschampsia elongata
33. Foothill Needlegrass
Nassella lepida
34. Foxtail Pricklegrass
Sporobolus alopecuroides
35. Longhair Sedge
Carex comosa
36. Slough Sedge
Carex obnupta
37. Chairmaker’s Bulrush
Schoenoplectus americanus
38. Foxtail Barley
Hordeum jubatum
39. Blunt Spikerush
Eleocharis obtusa
40. Meadow Barley
Hordeum brachyantherum
41. Witchgrass
Panicum capillare
42. Squirreltail
Elymus elymoides
43. American Sloughgrass
Beckmannia syzigachne
44. Torrey’s Melicgrass
Melica torreyana
45. Big Squirreltail
Elymus multisetus
46. Needle Spikerush
Eleocharis acicularis
47. Common Threesquare
Schoenoplectus pungens
48. River Bulrush
Bolboschoenus fluviatilis
49. Chamisso Sedge
Carex pachystachya
50. Seacoast Bulrush
Bolboschoenus robustus
51. Pinegrass
Calamagrostis rubescens
52. Teal Lovegrass
Eragrostis hypnoides
53. Small Fescue
Festuca microstachys
54. Western Rush
Juncus occidentalis
55. Red-Rooted Flatsedge
Cyperus erythrorhizos
56. Beaked Spikerush
Eleocharis rostellata
57. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
58. Annual Hairgrass
Deschampsia danthonioides
59. Oniongrass
Melica bulbosa
60. Santa Barbara Sedge
Carex barbarae
61. Dense Sedge
Carex densa
62. Pale Spikerush
Eleocharis macrostachya
63. Seaside Arrowgrass
Triglochin maritima
64. Tall Flatsedge
Cyperus eragrostis
65. Broad-Glumed Wheatgrass
Elymus violaceus
66. Toad Rush
Juncus bufonius
67. Mountain Brome
Bromus marginatus
68. Spike Bentgrass
Agrostis exarata
69. Torrent Sedge
Carex nudata
70. Roundfruit Sedge
Carex globosa
71. Pacific Rush
Juncus effusus subsp. pacificus
72. California Bulrush
Schoenoplectus californicus
73. Pointed Rush
Juncus oxymeris
74. Brown-Headed Rush
Juncus phaeocephalus
75. Northwestern Mannagrass
Glyceria occidentalis
76. Swamp Sedge
Carex senta
77. Bolander’s Rush
Juncus bolanderi
78. Pacific Woodrush
Luzula comosa
79. Chinook Brome
Bromus laevipes
80. Green Fescue
Festuca viridula
81. Small-Leaf Bentgrass
Agrostis microphylla
82. Mexican Rush
Juncus mexicanus
83. Bearded Sprangletop
Diplachne fusca subsp. fascicularis
84. California Hair Grass
Deschampsia cespitosa subsp. holciformis
85. Carolina Foxtail
Alopecurus carolinianus
86. Gray Sedge
Graphephorum canescens
87. Smallbract Sedge
Carex subbracteata
88. California Barley
Hordeum californicum
89. Dwarf Barley
Hordeum depressum
90. Western Needlegrass
Eriocoma occidentalis
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