This list shows 108 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. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
8. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
9. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
10. Cherokee Sedge
Carex cherokeensis
11. Splitbeard Bluestem
Andropogon ternarius
12. Blue Wood Sedge
Carex flaccosperma
13. Big Sacaton
Sporobolus wrightii
14. Elliott’s Love Grass
Eragrostis elliottii
15. Common Rush
Juncus effusus
16. Slender Rush
Juncus tenuis
17. Virginia Wildrye
Elymus virginicus
18. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
19. Common Spike-Rush
Eleocharis palustris
20. Starrush Whitetop
Rhynchospora colorata
21. Texas Sedge
Carex texensis
22. Haspan Flat Sedge
Cyperus haspan
23. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
24. Slender Woodoats
Chasmanthium laxum
25. Giant Cane
Arundinaria gigantea
26. Greater Bladder Sedge
Carex intumescens
27. Sugarcane Plumegrass
Saccharum giganteum
28. Seashore Paspalum
Paspalum vaginatum
29. Arrowfeather Threeawn
Aristida purpurascens
30. Texas Wintergrass
Nassella leucotricha
31. Fox Sedge
Carex vulpinoidea
32. Bushy Bluestem
Andropogon glomeratus
33. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
34. Torrey’s Rush
Juncus torreyi
35. Leavenworth’s Sedge
Carex leavenworthii
36. Blue Bluestem
Andropogon tener
37. Raven’s Foot Sedge
Carex crus-corvi
38. Bush’s Sedge
Carex bushii
39. Sand Spikerush
Eleocharis montevidensis
40. Thin Paspalum
Paspalum setaceum
41. Maidencane
Panicum hemitomon
42. Gulf Coast Spikerush
Eleocharis cellulosa
43. Softstem Bulrush
Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani
44. Broomsedge Bluestem
Andropogon virginicus
45. Woolgrass
Scirpus cyperinus
46. Purpletop Tridens
Tridens flavus
47. Rough Dropseed
Sporobolus compositus
48. Blunt Broom Sedge
Carex tribuloides
49. Witchgrass
Panicum capillare
50. Tapered Rosette Grass
Panicum acuminatum
51. Beach Dropseed
Sporobolus virginicus
52. Plains Lovegrass
Eragrostis intermedia
53. Vine Mesquite
Hopia obtusa
54. Hop Sedge
Carex lupulina
55. Interior Rush
Juncus interior
56. Giant Cutgrass
Zizaniopsis miliacea
57. Common Carpetgrass
Axonopus fissifolius
58. Seacoast Bulrush
Bolboschoenus robustus
59. Sweet Grass
Muhlenbergia sericea
60. Shoreline Sedge
Carex hyalinolepis
61. Squarestem Spikerush
Eleocharis quadrangulata
62. Two-Flower Melicgrass
Melica mutica
63. Manyspike Flatsedge
Cyperus polystachyos
64. Silver Beardgrass
Bothriochloa laguroides
65. Globe Flatsedge
Cyperus echinatus
66. Yellow Flatsedge
Cyperus flavescens
67. Teal Lovegrass
Eragrostis hypnoides
68. Smooth Cordgrass
Sporobolus alterniflorus
69. Variable Panicgrass
Panicum commutatum
70. Slender Spikerush
Eleocharis tenuis
71. Margined Rush
Juncus marginatus
72. Shortfruit Rush
Juncus brachycarpus
73. Lesser Creeping Rush
Juncus repens
74. Sawgrass
Cladium mariscus subsp. jamaicense
75. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
76. Saltmeadow Cordgrass
Sporobolus pumilus
77. False Nutsedge
Cyperus pseudovegetus
78. Brownseed Paspalum
Paspalum plicatulum
79. Roundhead Rush
Juncus validus
80. Hall’s Panicgrass
Panicum hallii
81. White Grass
Leersia virginica
82. Pale Spikerush
Eleocharis macrostachya
83. Tall Flatsedge
Cyperus eragrostis
84. Toad Rush
Juncus bufonius
85. Prairie Wedgescale
Sphenopholis obtusata
86. California Bulrush
Schoenoplectus californicus
87. Fall Panicgrass
Panicum dichotomiflorum
88. False Nutsedge
Cyperus strigosus
89. Velvet Panicum
Dichanthelium scoparium
90. Tropical Flat Sedge
Cyperus surinamensis
91. Texas Panicgrass
Coleataenia rigidula
92. Winter Bentgrass
Agrostis hyemalis
93. Longspike Tridens
Tridens strictus
94. Little Barley
Hordeum pusillum
95. Purple Sandgrass
Triplasis purpurea
96. Dichotomous Panic Grass
Dichanthelium dichotomum
97. Coast Cockspur Grass
Echinochloa walteri
98. Tapertip Flatsedge
Cyperus acuminatus
99. Hairy-Seed Paspalum
Paspalum pubiflorum
100. Gulfdune Paspalum
Paspalum monostachyum
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