This list shows 78 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. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
9. Sand Dropseed
Sporobolus cryptandrus
10. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
11. California Oatgrass
Danthonia californica
12. California Brome
Bromus carinatus
13. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
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. Panicled Bulrush
Scirpus microcarpus
20. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
21. Roemer’s Fescue
Festuca idahoensis subsp. roemeri
22. Reed Canary Grass
Phalaris arundinacea
23. Splitawn Sedge
Carex tumulicola
24. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
25. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
26. California Melicgrass
Melica californica
27. Purple Needlegrass
Nassella pulchra
28. Slender Hairgrass
Deschampsia elongata
29. Foothill Needlegrass
Nassella lepida
30. Longhair Sedge
Carex comosa
31. Chairmaker’s Bulrush
Schoenoplectus americanus
32. Foxtail Barley
Hordeum jubatum
33. Meadow Barley
Hordeum brachyantherum
34. Witchgrass
Panicum capillare
35. Sixweeks Fescue
Vulpia octoflora
36. Squirreltail
Elymus elymoides
37. American Sloughgrass
Beckmannia syzigachne
38. Torrey’s Melicgrass
Melica torreyana
39. Big Squirreltail
Elymus multisetus
40. River Bulrush
Bolboschoenus fluviatilis
41. Seacoast Bulrush
Bolboschoenus robustus
42. Pinegrass
Calamagrostis rubescens
43. Teal Lovegrass
Eragrostis hypnoides
44. Small Fescue
Festuca microstachys
45. Western Rush
Juncus occidentalis
46. Red-Rooted Flatsedge
Cyperus erythrorhizos
47. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
48. Annual Hairgrass
Deschampsia danthonioides
49. Maritime Brome
Bromus maritimus
50. Oniongrass
Melica bulbosa
51. Santa Barbara Sedge
Carex barbarae
52. Dense Sedge
Carex densa
53. Pale Spikerush
Eleocharis macrostachya
54. Seaside Arrowgrass
Triglochin maritima
55. Tall Flatsedge
Cyperus eragrostis
56. Broad-Glumed Wheatgrass
Elymus violaceus
57. Toad Rush
Juncus bufonius
58. Mountain Brome
Bromus marginatus
59. Spike Bentgrass
Agrostis exarata
60. Torrent Sedge
Carex nudata
61. Roundfruit Sedge
Carex globosa
62. Pacific Rush
Juncus effusus subsp. pacificus
63. California Bulrush
Schoenoplectus californicus
64. Brown-Headed Rush
Juncus phaeocephalus
65. Northwestern Mannagrass
Glyceria occidentalis
66. Swamp Sedge
Carex senta
67. Pacific Woodrush
Luzula comosa
68. Chinook Brome
Bromus laevipes
69. Green Fescue
Festuca viridula
70. Small-Leaf Bentgrass
Agrostis microphylla
71. Mexican Rush
Juncus mexicanus
72. Bearded Sprangletop
Diplachne fusca subsp. fascicularis
73. Nuttall’s Alkaligrass
Puccinellia nuttalliana
74. Gray Sedge
Graphephorum canescens
75. Smallbract Sedge
Carex subbracteata
76. California Barley
Hordeum californicum
77. Dwarf Barley
Hordeum depressum
78. Mexican Sprangletop
Diplachne fusca subsp. uninervia
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