This list shows 81 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. Little Bluestem
Schizachyrium scoparium
2. Big Bluestem
Andropogon gerardii
3. Northern Sea Oats
Chasmanthium latifolium
4. Hairawn Muhly
Muhlenbergia capillaris
5. Indiangrass
Sorghastrum nutans
6. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
7. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
8. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
9. Gray’s Sedge
Carex grayi
10. Cherokee Sedge
Carex cherokeensis
11. Awl-Fruited Sedge
Carex stipata
12. Splitbeard Bluestem
Andropogon ternarius
13. Blue Wood Sedge
Carex flaccosperma
14. Common Rush
Juncus effusus
15. Slender Rush
Juncus tenuis
16. Virginia Wildrye
Elymus virginicus
17. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
18. Fringed Sedge
Carex crinita
19. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
20. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
21. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
22. Haspan Flat Sedge
Cyperus haspan
23. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
24. Slender Woodoats
Chasmanthium laxum
25. Giant Cane
Arundinaria gigantea
26. Greater Bladder Sedge
Carex intumescens
27. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
28. Hairy Woodrush
Luzula acuminata
29. Arrowfeather Threeawn
Aristida purpurascens
30. Fox Sedge
Carex vulpinoidea
31. Creek Sedge
Carex amphibola
32. Bushy Bluestem
Andropogon glomeratus
33. Fowl Mannagrass
Glyceria striata
34. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
35. Hairy Woodland Brome
Bromus pubescens
36. Leavenworth’s Sedge
Carex leavenworthii
37. Nimblewill
Muhlenbergia schreberi
38. Thin Paspalum
Paspalum setaceum
39. Broomsedge Bluestem
Andropogon virginicus
40. Woolgrass
Scirpus cyperinus
41. Sallow Sedge
Carex lurida
42. Purpletop Tridens
Tridens flavus
43. Blunt Spikerush
Eleocharis obtusa
44. Stout Woodreed
Cinna arundinacea
45. Blunt Broom Sedge
Carex tribuloides
46. Greenish-White Sedge
Carex albolutescens
47. Hop Sedge
Carex lupulina
48. Frank’s Sedge
Carex frankii
49. Oval-Leaf Sedge
Carex cephalophora
50. Three-Way Sedge
Dulichium arundinaceum
51. Cattail Sedge
Carex typhina
52. Common Carpetgrass
Axonopus fissifolius
53. Deertongue
Panicum clandestinum
54. Squarestem Spikerush
Eleocharis quadrangulata
55. Two-Flower Melicgrass
Melica mutica
56. Globe Flatsedge
Cyperus echinatus
57. White-Edge Sedge
Carex debilis
58. Yellow Flatsedge
Cyperus flavescens
59. Needlepod Rush
Juncus scirpoides
60. Variable Panicgrass
Panicum commutatum
61. Margined Rush
Juncus marginatus
62. Red-Rooted Flatsedge
Cyperus erythrorhizos
63. Field Paspalum
Paspalum laeve
64. Autumn Bluegrass
Poa autumnalis
65. Black Oat Grass
Piptochaetium avenaceum
66. Lesser Creeping Rush
Juncus repens
67. Broad Loose-Flowered Sedge
Carex laxiflora
68. White Grass
Leersia virginica
69. Prairie Wedgescale
Sphenopholis obtusata
70. False Nutsedge
Cyperus strigosus
71. Velvet Panicum
Dichanthelium scoparium
72. Beaked Panic Grass
Coleataenia anceps
73. Little Barley
Hordeum pusillum
74. Dichotomous Panic Grass
Dichanthelium dichotomum
75. Leafy Bulrush
Scirpus polyphyllus
76. Broadleaf Rosette Grass
Dichanthelium latifolium
77. Forked Rush
Juncus dichotomus
78. Woodland Bluegrass
Poa sylvestris
79. Thicket Sedge
Carex abscondita
80. Small-Fruited Spikesedge
Eleocharis microcarpa
81. Broadleaf Signalgrass
Urochloa platyphylla
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