This list shows 86 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. Buffalograss
Bouteloua dactyloides
8. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
9. Blue Grama
Bouteloua gracilis
10. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
11. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
12. Cherokee Sedge
Carex cherokeensis
13. Splitbeard Bluestem
Andropogon ternarius
14. Sand Lovegrass
Eragrostis trichodes
15. Purple Threeawn
Aristida purpurea
16. Slender Rush
Juncus tenuis
17. Virginia Wildrye
Elymus virginicus
18. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
19. Common Spike-Rush
Eleocharis palustris
20. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
21. Texas Sedge
Carex texensis
22. Rice Cutgrass
Leersia oryzoides
23. Hairy Grama
Bouteloua hirsuta
24. Texas Wintergrass
Nassella leucotricha
25. Fox Sedge
Carex vulpinoidea
26. Bushy Bluestem
Andropogon glomeratus
27. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
28. Torrey’s Rush
Juncus torreyi
29. Rufous Bulrush
Scirpus pendulus
30. Hairy Woodland Brome
Bromus pubescens
31. Leavenworth’s Sedge
Carex leavenworthii
32. Nimblewill
Muhlenbergia schreberi
33. Raven’s Foot Sedge
Carex crus-corvi
34. Bush’s Sedge
Carex bushii
35. Sand Spikerush
Eleocharis montevidensis
36. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
37. Texas Bluegrass
Poa arachnifera
38. Thin Paspalum
Paspalum setaceum
39. Broomsedge Bluestem
Andropogon virginicus
40. Shortbeak Sedge
Carex brevior
41. Purpletop Tridens
Tridens flavus
42. Blunt Spikerush
Eleocharis obtusa
43. Rough Dropseed
Sporobolus compositus
44. Emory’s Sedge
Carex emoryi
45. Witchgrass
Panicum capillare
46. Tapered Rosette Grass
Panicum acuminatum
47. Silver Bluestem
Bothriochloa saccharoides
48. Sixweeks Fescue
Vulpia octoflora
49. Plains Lovegrass
Eragrostis intermedia
50. Vine Mesquite
Hopia obtusa
51. Oval-Leaf Sedge
Carex cephalophora
52. Interior Rush
Juncus interior
53. Sand Sedge
Carex muehlenbergii
54. Dudley’s Rush
Juncus dudleyi
55. Squarestem Spikerush
Eleocharis quadrangulata
56. Silver Beardgrass
Bothriochloa laguroides
57. Globe Flatsedge
Cyperus echinatus
58. Yellow Flatsedge
Cyperus flavescens
59. Margined Rush
Juncus marginatus
60. Red-Rooted Flatsedge
Cyperus erythrorhizos
61. Shortfruit Rush
Juncus brachycarpus
62. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
63. False Nutsedge
Cyperus pseudovegetus
64. Maiden Cane
Paspalum dissectum
65. Roundhead Rush
Juncus validus
66. Hall’s Panicgrass
Panicum hallii
67. Prairie Wedgescale
Sphenopholis obtusata
68. California Bulrush
Schoenoplectus californicus
69. Fall Panicgrass
Panicum dichotomiflorum
70. False Nutsedge
Cyperus strigosus
71. Fragrant Flatsedge
Cyperus odoratus
72. Bent Spikerush
Eleocharis geniculata
73. Fendler Threeawn
Aristida longiseta
74. Beaked Panic Grass
Coleataenia anceps
75. Winter Bentgrass
Agrostis hyemalis
76. Scribner’s Panic Grass
Dichanthelium scribnerianum
77. Longspike Tridens
Tridens strictus
78. Little Barley
Hordeum pusillum
79. Carolina Foxtail
Alopecurus carolinianus
80. Purple Sandgrass
Triplasis purpurea
81. Tapertip Flatsedge
Cyperus acuminatus
82. Hairy-Seed Paspalum
Paspalum pubiflorum
83. Green Sprangletop
Disakisperma dubium
84. Mucronate Sprangletop
Leptochloa panicea
85. Itch Grass
Rottboellia campestris
86. Texas Signalgrass
Urochloa texana
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