This list shows 83 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. Awl-Fruited Sedge
Carex stipata
11. Splitbeard Bluestem
Andropogon ternarius
12. Blue Wood Sedge
Carex flaccosperma
13. Common Rush
Juncus effusus
14. Bottlebrush Grass
Elymus hystrix
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. Slender Woodoats
Chasmanthium laxum
23. Blue Sedge
Carex glaucodea
24. Giant Cane
Arundinaria gigantea
25. Greater Bladder Sedge
Carex intumescens
26. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
27. Common Woodrush
Luzula multiflora
28. Hairy Woodrush
Luzula acuminata
29. Arrowfeather Threeawn
Aristida purpurascens
30. Fox Sedge
Carex vulpinoidea
31. Creek Sedge
Carex amphibola
32. Fowl Mannagrass
Glyceria striata
33. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
34. Hairy Woodland Brome
Bromus pubescens
35. Leavenworth’s Sedge
Carex leavenworthii
36. Canadian Rush
Juncus canadensis
37. Nimblewill
Muhlenbergia schreberi
38. Thin Paspalum
Paspalum setaceum
39. Softstem Bulrush
Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani
40. Broomsedge Bluestem
Andropogon virginicus
41. Woolgrass
Scirpus cyperinus
42. Sallow Sedge
Carex lurida
43. Purpletop Tridens
Tridens flavus
44. Blunt Spikerush
Eleocharis obtusa
45. Stout Woodreed
Cinna arundinacea
46. Greater Straw Sedge
Carex normalis
47. Blunt Broom Sedge
Carex tribuloides
48. Limestone Meadow Sedge
Carex granularis
49. Tapered Rosette Grass
Panicum acuminatum
50. Swan’s Sedge
Carex swanii
51. Hop Sedge
Carex lupulina
52. Frank’s Sedge
Carex frankii
53. Squarrose Sedge
Carex squarrosa
54. Oval-Leaf Sedge
Carex cephalophora
55. Cattail Sedge
Carex typhina
56. Riverbank Wild Rye
Elymus riparius
57. Deertongue
Panicum clandestinum
58. Upland Bentgrass
Agrostis perennans
59. Wavy Hairgrass
Avenella flexuosa
60. Two-Flower Melicgrass
Melica mutica
61. Globe Flatsedge
Cyperus echinatus
62. White-Edge Sedge
Carex debilis
63. Variable Panicgrass
Panicum commutatum
64. Slender Spikerush
Eleocharis tenuis
65. Margined Rush
Juncus marginatus
66. Field Paspalum
Paspalum laeve
67. Black Oat Grass
Piptochaetium avenaceum
68. Broad Loose-Flowered Sedge
Carex laxiflora
69. Slender Bluestem
Sorghastrum elliottii
70. Toad Rush
Juncus bufonius
71. Prairie Wedgescale
Sphenopholis obtusata
72. Fall Panicgrass
Panicum dichotomiflorum
73. False Nutsedge
Cyperus strigosus
74. Velvet Panicum
Dichanthelium scoparium
75. Beaked Panic Grass
Coleataenia anceps
76. Scribner’s Panic Grass
Dichanthelium scribnerianum
77. Georgia Bulrush
Scirpus georgianus
78. Little Barley
Hordeum pusillum
79. Northern Mannagrass
Glyceria septentrionalis
80. Forked Rush
Juncus dichotomus
81. Woodland Bluegrass
Poa sylvestris
82.
Cyperus lancastriensis
83. Broadleaf Signalgrass
Urochloa platyphylla
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