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. Indiangrass
Sorghastrum nutans
5. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
6. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
7. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
8. Gray’s Sedge
Carex grayi
9. Creeping Sedge
Carex laxiculmis
10. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
11. Awl-Fruited Sedge
Carex stipata
12. Bottlebrush Grass
Elymus hystrix
13. Tussock Sedge
Carex stricta
14. Virginia Wildrye
Elymus virginicus
15. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
16. Bluejoint
Calamagrostis canadensis
17. Fringed Sedge
Carex crinita
18. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
19. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
20. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
21. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
22. American Beakgrain
Diarrhena obovata
23. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
24. Broadleaf Sedge
Carex platyphylla
25. Blue Sedge
Carex glaucodea
26. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
27. Hairy Woodrush
Luzula acuminata
28. White Bear Sedge
Carex albursina
29. Fox Sedge
Carex vulpinoidea
30. Creek Sedge
Carex amphibola
31. Fowl Mannagrass
Glyceria striata
32. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
33. Pointed Broom Sedge
Carex scoparia
34. Brome-Like Sedge
Carex bromoides
35. Hairy Wildrye
Elymus villosus
36. Crested Sedge
Carex cristatella
37. Rufous Bulrush
Scirpus pendulus
38. Hairy Woodland Brome
Bromus pubescens
39. Leavenworth’s Sedge
Carex leavenworthii
40. Bur-Reed Sedge
Carex sparganioides
41. Bush’s Sedge
Carex bushii
42. Earlyleaf Brome
Bromus latiglumis
43. Thin Paspalum
Paspalum setaceum
44. Shaved Sedge
Carex tonsa
45. Broomsedge Bluestem
Andropogon virginicus
46. Woolgrass
Scirpus cyperinus
47. Longhair Sedge
Carex comosa
48. Sallow Sedge
Carex lurida
49. Purpletop Tridens
Tridens flavus
50. Pretty Sedge
Carex woodii
51. Blunt Spikerush
Eleocharis obtusa
52. Stout Woodreed
Cinna arundinacea
53. Greater Straw Sedge
Carex normalis
54. Graceful Sedge
Carex gracillima
55. Rough Dropseed
Sporobolus compositus
56. Blunt Broom Sedge
Carex tribuloides
57. Limestone Meadow Sedge
Carex granularis
58. James’s Sedge
Carex jamesii
59. Emory’s Sedge
Carex emoryi
60. Mexican Muhly
Muhlenbergia mexicana
61. Swan’s Sedge
Carex swanii
62. Greenish-White Sedge
Carex albolutescens
63. Hop Sedge
Carex lupulina
64. Bottlebrush Sedge
Carex hystericina
65. Frank’s Sedge
Carex frankii
66. Lake Sedge
Carex lacustris
67. Short’s Sedge
Carex shortiana
68. Squarrose Sedge
Carex squarrosa
69. Oval-Leaf Sedge
Carex cephalophora
70. Cattail Sedge
Carex typhina
71. Davis’ Sedge
Carex davisii
72. Sand Sedge
Carex muehlenbergii
73. Willdenow’s Sedge
Carex willdenowii
74. Riverbank Wild Rye
Elymus riparius
75. Deertongue
Panicum clandestinum
76. Arctic Brome
Bromus kalmii
77. Rattlesnake Mannagrass
Glyceria canadensis
78. Dudley’s Rush
Juncus dudleyi
79. Soft Fox Sedge
Carex conjuncta
80. Upland Bentgrass
Agrostis perennans
81. Buxbaum’s Sedge
Carex buxbaumii
82. Wavy Hairgrass
Avenella flexuosa
83. Hairy Woodland Sedge
Carex hirsutella
84. Globe Flatsedge
Cyperus echinatus
85. White-Edge Sedge
Carex debilis
86. Slender Looseflower Sedge
Carex gracilescens
87. Teal Lovegrass
Eragrostis hypnoides
88. Variable Panicgrass
Panicum commutatum
89. Slender Spikerush
Eleocharis tenuis
90. Necklace Sedge
Carex projecta
91. Broad Loose-Flowered Sedge
Carex laxiflora
92. Fibrousroot Sedge
Carex communis
93. Prairie Wedgescale
Sphenopholis obtusata
94. Fall Panicgrass
Panicum dichotomiflorum
95. Bristly-Stalked Sedge
Carex leptalea
96. Prairie Cordgrass
Sporobolus michauxianus
97. Georgia Bulrush
Scirpus georgianus
98. Purple Sandgrass
Triplasis purpurea
99. Woodland Bluegrass
Poa sylvestris
100. Lopsided Rush
Juncus secundus
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