This list shows 83 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. Common Rush
Juncus effusus
17. Slender Rush
Juncus tenuis
18. Virginia Wildrye
Elymus virginicus
19. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
20. Common Spike-Rush
Eleocharis palustris
21. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
22. Texas Sedge
Carex texensis
23. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
24. Hairy Grama
Bouteloua hirsuta
25. Texas Wintergrass
Nassella leucotricha
26. Fox Sedge
Carex vulpinoidea
27. Bushy Bluestem
Andropogon glomeratus
28. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
29. Torrey’s Rush
Juncus torreyi
30. Rufous Bulrush
Scirpus pendulus
31. Hairy Woodland Brome
Bromus pubescens
32. Leavenworth’s Sedge
Carex leavenworthii
33. Nimblewill
Muhlenbergia schreberi
34. Raven’s Foot Sedge
Carex crus-corvi
35. Bush’s Sedge
Carex bushii
36. Sand Spikerush
Eleocharis montevidensis
37. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
38. Texas Bluegrass
Poa arachnifera
39. Thin Paspalum
Paspalum setaceum
40. Broomsedge Bluestem
Andropogon virginicus
41. Shortbeak Sedge
Carex brevior
42. Purpletop Tridens
Tridens flavus
43. Blunt Spikerush
Eleocharis obtusa
44. Rough Dropseed
Sporobolus compositus
45. Emory’s Sedge
Carex emoryi
46. Witchgrass
Panicum capillare
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. Flat-Stemmed Spike-Rush
Eleocharis compressa
59. Margined Rush
Juncus marginatus
60. Red-Rooted Flatsedge
Cyperus erythrorhizos
61. Shortfruit Rush
Juncus brachycarpus
62. False Nutsedge
Cyperus pseudovegetus
63. Roundhead Rush
Juncus validus
64. Hall’s Panicgrass
Panicum hallii
65. Prairie Wedgescale
Sphenopholis obtusata
66. Fall Panicgrass
Panicum dichotomiflorum
67. False Nutsedge
Cyperus strigosus
68. Fragrant Flatsedge
Cyperus odoratus
69. Bent Spikerush
Eleocharis geniculata
70. Fendler Threeawn
Aristida longiseta
71. Beaked Panic Grass
Coleataenia anceps
72. Winter Bentgrass
Agrostis hyemalis
73. Scribner’s Panic Grass
Dichanthelium scribnerianum
74. Longspike Tridens
Tridens strictus
75. Little Barley
Hordeum pusillum
76. Carolina Foxtail
Alopecurus carolinianus
77. Purple Sandgrass
Triplasis purpurea
78. Tapertip Flatsedge
Cyperus acuminatus
79. Hairy-Seed Paspalum
Paspalum pubiflorum
80. Green Sprangletop
Disakisperma dubium
81. Mucronate Sprangletop
Leptochloa panicea
82. Itch Grass
Rottboellia campestris
83. Texas Signalgrass
Urochloa texana
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