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. Sand Dropseed
Sporobolus cryptandrus
17. Common Rush
Juncus effusus
18. Slender Rush
Juncus tenuis
19. Virginia Wildrye
Elymus virginicus
20. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
21. Common Spike-Rush
Eleocharis palustris
22. Texas Sedge
Carex texensis
23. Rice Cutgrass
Leersia oryzoides
24. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
25. Hairy Grama
Bouteloua hirsuta
26. Texas Wintergrass
Nassella leucotricha
27. Fox Sedge
Carex vulpinoidea
28. Bushy Bluestem
Andropogon glomeratus
29. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
30. Torrey’s Rush
Juncus torreyi
31. Hairy Wildrye
Elymus villosus
32. Rufous Bulrush
Scirpus pendulus
33. Hairy Woodland Brome
Bromus pubescens
34. Leavenworth’s Sedge
Carex leavenworthii
35. Nimblewill
Muhlenbergia schreberi
36. Raven’s Foot Sedge
Carex crus-corvi
37. Sand Spikerush
Eleocharis montevidensis
38. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
39. Texas Meadow Sedge
Carex perdentata
40. Texas Bluegrass
Poa arachnifera
41. Thin Paspalum
Paspalum setaceum
42. Softstem Bulrush
Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani
43. Broomsedge Bluestem
Andropogon virginicus
44. Shortbeak Sedge
Carex brevior
45. Purpletop Tridens
Tridens flavus
46. Blunt Spikerush
Eleocharis obtusa
47. Rough Dropseed
Sporobolus compositus
48. Emory’s Sedge
Carex emoryi
49. Witchgrass
Panicum capillare
50. Tapered Rosette Grass
Panicum acuminatum
51. Silver Bluestem
Bothriochloa saccharoides
52. Sixweeks Fescue
Vulpia octoflora
53. Plains Lovegrass
Eragrostis intermedia
54. Vine Mesquite
Hopia obtusa
55. Oval-Leaf Sedge
Carex cephalophora
56. Interior Rush
Juncus interior
57. Sand Sedge
Carex muehlenbergii
58. Giant Cutgrass
Zizaniopsis miliacea
59. Dudley’s Rush
Juncus dudleyi
60. Squarestem Spikerush
Eleocharis quadrangulata
61. Silver Beardgrass
Bothriochloa laguroides
62. Globe Flatsedge
Cyperus echinatus
63. Margined Rush
Juncus marginatus
64. Red-Rooted Flatsedge
Cyperus erythrorhizos
65. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
66. False Nutsedge
Cyperus pseudovegetus
67. Red Grama
Bouteloua trifida
68. Hall’s Panicgrass
Panicum hallii
69. Prairie Wedgescale
Sphenopholis obtusata
70. Fall Panicgrass
Panicum dichotomiflorum
71. Fendler Threeawn
Aristida longiseta
72. Beaked Panic Grass
Coleataenia anceps
73. Winter Bentgrass
Agrostis hyemalis
74. Scribner’s Panic Grass
Dichanthelium scribnerianum
75. Longspike Tridens
Tridens strictus
76. Little Barley
Hordeum pusillum
77. Carolina Foxtail
Alopecurus carolinianus
78. Purple Sandgrass
Triplasis purpurea
79. Tapertip Flatsedge
Cyperus acuminatus
80. Hairy-Seed Paspalum
Paspalum pubiflorum
81. Green Sprangletop
Disakisperma dubium
82. Mucronate Sprangletop
Leptochloa panicea
83. Tall Grama
Bouteloua pectinata
84. Southwestern Bristle Grass
Setaria scheelei
85. Itch Grass
Rottboellia campestris
86. Texas Signalgrass
Urochloa texana
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