This list shows 72 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. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
7. Awl-Fruited Sedge
Carex stipata
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. Common Rush
Juncus effusus
14. Slender Rush
Juncus tenuis
15. Common Spike-Rush
Eleocharis palustris
16. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
17. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
18. Hardstem Bulrush
Schoenoplectus acutus
19. Rice Cutgrass
Leersia oryzoides
20. Panicled Bulrush
Scirpus microcarpus
21. Baltic Rush
Juncus balticus
22. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
23. Reed Canary Grass
Phalaris arundinacea
24. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
25. Splitawn Sedge
Carex tumulicola
26. California Melicgrass
Melica californica
27. Purple Needlegrass
Nassella pulchra
28. Slender Hairgrass
Deschampsia elongata
29. Foothill Needlegrass
Nassella lepida
30. Foxtail Pricklegrass
Sporobolus alopecuroides
31. Chairmaker’s Bulrush
Schoenoplectus americanus
32. Foxtail Barley
Hordeum jubatum
33. Blunt Spikerush
Eleocharis obtusa
34. Meadow Barley
Hordeum brachyantherum
35. Witchgrass
Panicum capillare
36. American Sloughgrass
Beckmannia syzigachne
37. Torrey’s Melicgrass
Melica torreyana
38. Big Squirreltail
Elymus multisetus
39. Needle Spikerush
Eleocharis acicularis
40. Common Threesquare
Schoenoplectus pungens
41. River Bulrush
Bolboschoenus fluviatilis
42. Seacoast Bulrush
Bolboschoenus robustus
43. Teal Lovegrass
Eragrostis hypnoides
44. Small Fescue
Festuca microstachys
45. Red-Rooted Flatsedge
Cyperus erythrorhizos
46. Beaked Spikerush
Eleocharis rostellata
47. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
48. Annual Hairgrass
Deschampsia danthonioides
49. Oniongrass
Melica bulbosa
50. Santa Barbara Sedge
Carex barbarae
51. Dense Sedge
Carex densa
52. Pale Spikerush
Eleocharis macrostachya
53. Seaside Arrowgrass
Triglochin maritima
54. Tall Flatsedge
Cyperus eragrostis
55. Broad-Glumed Wheatgrass
Elymus violaceus
56. Toad Rush
Juncus bufonius
57. Spike Bentgrass
Agrostis exarata
58. Torrent Sedge
Carex nudata
59. Pacific Rush
Juncus effusus subsp. pacificus
60. California Bulrush
Schoenoplectus californicus
61. Pointed Rush
Juncus oxymeris
62. Northwestern Mannagrass
Glyceria occidentalis
63. Swamp Sedge
Carex senta
64. Pacific Woodrush
Luzula comosa
65. Small-Leaf Bentgrass
Agrostis microphylla
66. Mexican Rush
Juncus mexicanus
67. Bearded Sprangletop
Diplachne fusca subsp. fascicularis
68. Little Barley
Hordeum pusillum
69. Carolina Foxtail
Alopecurus carolinianus
70. Gray Sedge
Graphephorum canescens
71. California Barley
Hordeum californicum
72. Dwarf Barley
Hordeum depressum
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