This list shows 100 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. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
7. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
8. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
9. Cherokee Sedge
Carex cherokeensis
10. Splitbeard Bluestem
Andropogon ternarius
11. Blue Wood Sedge
Carex flaccosperma
12. Elliott’s Love Grass
Eragrostis elliottii
13. Common Rush
Juncus effusus
14. Slender Rush
Juncus tenuis
15. Virginia Wildrye
Elymus virginicus
16. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
17. Starrush Whitetop
Rhynchospora colorata
18. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
19. Texas Sedge
Carex texensis
20. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
21. Haspan Flat Sedge
Cyperus haspan
22. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
23. Slender Woodoats
Chasmanthium laxum
24. Giant Cane
Arundinaria gigantea
25. Greater Bladder Sedge
Carex intumescens
26. Sugarcane Plumegrass
Saccharum giganteum
27. Seashore Paspalum
Paspalum vaginatum
28. Arrowfeather Threeawn
Aristida purpurascens
29. Texas Wintergrass
Nassella leucotricha
30. Fox Sedge
Carex vulpinoidea
31. Bushy Bluestem
Andropogon glomeratus
32. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
33. Hairy Woodland Brome
Bromus pubescens
34. Leavenworth’s Sedge
Carex leavenworthii
35. Blue Bluestem
Andropogon tener
36. Raven’s Foot Sedge
Carex crus-corvi
37. Bush’s Sedge
Carex bushii
38. Thin Paspalum
Paspalum setaceum
39. Maidencane
Panicum hemitomon
40. Gulf Coast Spikerush
Eleocharis cellulosa
41. Broomsedge Bluestem
Andropogon virginicus
42. Woolgrass
Scirpus cyperinus
43. Purpletop Tridens
Tridens flavus
44. Blunt Spikerush
Eleocharis obtusa
45. Rough Dropseed
Sporobolus compositus
46. Blunt Broom Sedge
Carex tribuloides
47. Witchgrass
Panicum capillare
48. Tapered Rosette Grass
Panicum acuminatum
49. Sixweeks Fescue
Vulpia octoflora
50. Plains Lovegrass
Eragrostis intermedia
51. Hop Sedge
Carex lupulina
52. Interior Rush
Juncus interior
53. Sand Sedge
Carex muehlenbergii
54. Giant Cutgrass
Zizaniopsis miliacea
55. Common Carpetgrass
Axonopus fissifolius
56. Common Threesquare
Schoenoplectus pungens
57. Seacoast Bulrush
Bolboschoenus robustus
58. Sweet Grass
Muhlenbergia sericea
59. Squarestem Spikerush
Eleocharis quadrangulata
60. Two-Flower Melicgrass
Melica mutica
61. Manyspike Flatsedge
Cyperus polystachyos
62. Silver Beardgrass
Bothriochloa laguroides
63. Globe Flatsedge
Cyperus echinatus
64. Smooth Cordgrass
Sporobolus alterniflorus
65. Variable Panicgrass
Panicum commutatum
66. Slender Spikerush
Eleocharis tenuis
67. Margined Rush
Juncus marginatus
68. Autumn Bluegrass
Poa autumnalis
69. Black Oat Grass
Piptochaetium avenaceum
70. Shortfruit Rush
Juncus brachycarpus
71. Lesser Creeping Rush
Juncus repens
72. Sawgrass
Cladium mariscus subsp. jamaicense
73. Saltmeadow Cordgrass
Sporobolus pumilus
74. False Nutsedge
Cyperus pseudovegetus
75. Brownseed Paspalum
Paspalum plicatulum
76. Roundhead Rush
Juncus validus
77. Hall’s Panicgrass
Panicum hallii
78. White Grass
Leersia virginica
79. Pale Spikerush
Eleocharis macrostachya
80. Tall Flatsedge
Cyperus eragrostis
81. Prairie Wedgescale
Sphenopholis obtusata
82. Fall Panicgrass
Panicum dichotomiflorum
83. False Nutsedge
Cyperus strigosus
84. Fragrant Flatsedge
Cyperus odoratus
85. Velvet Panicum
Dichanthelium scoparium
86. Beaked Panic Grass
Coleataenia anceps
87. Winter Bentgrass
Agrostis hyemalis
88. Longspike Tridens
Tridens strictus
89. Little Barley
Hordeum pusillum
90. Purple Sandgrass
Triplasis purpurea
91. Tapertip Flatsedge
Cyperus acuminatus
92. Hairy-Seed Paspalum
Paspalum pubiflorum
93. Gulfdune Paspalum
Paspalum monostachyum
94. Horned Beaksedge
Rhynchospora corniculata
95. Needleleaf Rosette Grass
Dichanthelium aciculare
96. Toothed Paspalum
Paspalum denticulatum
97. Broadleaf Signalgrass
Urochloa platyphylla
98. Angleton Grass
Dichanthium aristatum
99. Gulf Cordgrass
Sporobolus spartinae
100. Itch Grass
Rottboellia campestris
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