This list shows 93 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. Cherokee Sedge
Carex cherokeensis
9. Awl-Fruited Sedge
Carex stipata
10. Blue Wood Sedge
Carex flaccosperma
11. Elliott’s Love Grass
Eragrostis elliottii
12. Common Rush
Juncus effusus
13. Slender Rush
Juncus tenuis
14. Virginia Wildrye
Elymus virginicus
15. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
16. Starrush Whitetop
Rhynchospora colorata
17. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
18. Haspan Flat Sedge
Cyperus haspan
19. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
20. Slender Woodoats
Chasmanthium laxum
21. Giant Cane
Arundinaria gigantea
22. Greater Bladder Sedge
Carex intumescens
23. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
24. Sugarcane Plumegrass
Saccharum giganteum
25. Arrowfeather Threeawn
Aristida purpurascens
26. Fox Sedge
Carex vulpinoidea
27. Bushy Bluestem
Andropogon glomeratus
28. Brome-Like Sedge
Carex bromoides
29. Leavenworth’s Sedge
Carex leavenworthii
30. Raven’s Foot Sedge
Carex crus-corvi
31. Big Cordgrass
Spartina cynosuroides
32. Thin Paspalum
Paspalum setaceum
33. Maidencane
Panicum hemitomon
34. Eggleaf Rosette Grass
Dichanthelium ovale
35. Softstem Bulrush
Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani
36. Broomsedge Bluestem
Andropogon virginicus
37. Woolgrass
Scirpus cyperinus
38. Longhair Sedge
Carex comosa
39. Sallow Sedge
Carex lurida
40. Purpletop Tridens
Tridens flavus
41. Blunt Spikerush
Eleocharis obtusa
42. Stout Woodreed
Cinna arundinacea
43. Blunt Broom Sedge
Carex tribuloides
44. Tapered Rosette Grass
Panicum acuminatum
45. Hop Sedge
Carex lupulina
46. Oval-Leaf Sedge
Carex cephalophora
47. Three-Way Sedge
Dulichium arundinaceum
48. Cattail Sedge
Carex typhina
49. Sand Sedge
Carex muehlenbergii
50. Carpet Grass
Axonopus compressus
51. Giant Cutgrass
Zizaniopsis miliacea
52. Common Carpetgrass
Axonopus fissifolius
53. Southern Waxy Sedge
Carex glaucescens
54. Deertongue
Panicum clandestinum
55. Upland Bentgrass
Agrostis perennans
56. Annual Wildrice
Zizania aquatica
57. Seacoast Bulrush
Bolboschoenus robustus
58. Two-Flower Melicgrass
Melica mutica
59. Manyspike Flatsedge
Cyperus polystachyos
60. Globe Flatsedge
Cyperus echinatus
61. White-Edge Sedge
Carex debilis
62. Yellow Flatsedge
Cyperus flavescens
63. Variable Panicgrass
Panicum commutatum
64. Margined Rush
Juncus marginatus
65. Autumn Bluegrass
Poa autumnalis
66. Black Oat Grass
Piptochaetium avenaceum
67. Lesser Creeping Rush
Juncus repens
68. Cypress Swamp Sedge
Carex joorii
69. Sawgrass
Cladium mariscus subsp. jamaicense
70. False Nutsedge
Cyperus pseudovegetus
71. Roundhead Rush
Juncus validus
72. Slender Bluestem
Sorghastrum elliottii
73. White Grass
Leersia virginica
74. Prairie Wedgescale
Sphenopholis obtusata
75. Fall Panicgrass
Panicum dichotomiflorum
76. False Nutsedge
Cyperus strigosus
77. Fragrant Flatsedge
Cyperus odoratus
78. Velvet Panicum
Dichanthelium scoparium
79. Beaked Panic Grass
Coleataenia anceps
80. Winter Bentgrass
Agrostis hyemalis
81. Little Barley
Hordeum pusillum
82. Purple Sandgrass
Triplasis purpurea
83. Dichotomous Panic Grass
Dichanthelium dichotomum
84. Coast Cockspur Grass
Echinochloa walteri
85. Forked Rush
Juncus dichotomus
86. Horned Beaksedge
Rhynchospora corniculata
87. Bent Arm Plumegrass
Saccharum brevibarbe
88. Annual Sedge
Cyperus compressus
89. Thicket Sedge
Carex abscondita
90. Small-Fruited Spikesedge
Eleocharis microcarpa
91. Broadleaf Signalgrass
Urochloa platyphylla
92. American Cupscale
Sacciolepis striata
93. Threeawn
Aristida virgata
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