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. 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. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
23. Haspan Flat Sedge
Cyperus haspan
24. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
25. Slender Woodoats
Chasmanthium laxum
26. Giant Cane
Arundinaria gigantea
27. Greater Bladder Sedge
Carex intumescens
28. Sugarcane Plumegrass
Saccharum giganteum
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. Hairy Woodland Brome
Bromus pubescens
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. Thin Paspalum
Paspalum setaceum
40. Maidencane
Panicum hemitomon
41. Gulf Coast Spikerush
Eleocharis cellulosa
42. Broomsedge Bluestem
Andropogon virginicus
43. Woolgrass
Scirpus cyperinus
44. Purpletop Tridens
Tridens flavus
45. Rough Dropseed
Sporobolus compositus
46. Blunt Broom Sedge
Carex tribuloides
47. Witchgrass
Panicum capillare
48. Tapered Rosette Grass
Panicum acuminatum
49. Hop Sedge
Carex lupulina
50. Interior Rush
Juncus interior
51. Giant Cutgrass
Zizaniopsis miliacea
52. Common Carpetgrass
Axonopus fissifolius
53. Common Threesquare
Schoenoplectus pungens
54. Seacoast Bulrush
Bolboschoenus robustus
55. Sweet Grass
Muhlenbergia sericea
56. Shoreline Sedge
Carex hyalinolepis
57. Squarestem Spikerush
Eleocharis quadrangulata
58. Two-Flower Melicgrass
Melica mutica
59. Manyspike Flatsedge
Cyperus polystachyos
60. Silver Beardgrass
Bothriochloa laguroides
61. Globe Flatsedge
Cyperus echinatus
62. Teal Lovegrass
Eragrostis hypnoides
63. Smooth Cordgrass
Sporobolus alterniflorus
64. Variable Panicgrass
Panicum commutatum
65. Slender Spikerush
Eleocharis tenuis
66. Margined Rush
Juncus marginatus
67. Shortfruit Rush
Juncus brachycarpus
68. Lesser Creeping Rush
Juncus repens
69. Sawgrass
Cladium mariscus subsp. jamaicense
70. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
71. Saltmeadow Cordgrass
Sporobolus pumilus
72. False Nutsedge
Cyperus pseudovegetus
73. Brownseed Paspalum
Paspalum plicatulum
74. Roundhead Rush
Juncus validus
75. Hall’s Panicgrass
Panicum hallii
76. White Grass
Leersia virginica
77. Pale Spikerush
Eleocharis macrostachya
78. Tall Flatsedge
Cyperus eragrostis
79. Prairie Wedgescale
Sphenopholis obtusata
80. California Bulrush
Schoenoplectus californicus
81. Fall Panicgrass
Panicum dichotomiflorum
82. False Nutsedge
Cyperus strigosus
83. Velvet Panicum
Dichanthelium scoparium
84. Tropical Flat Sedge
Cyperus surinamensis
85. Beaked Panic Grass
Coleataenia anceps
86. Winter Bentgrass
Agrostis hyemalis
87. Longspike Tridens
Tridens strictus
88. Little Barley
Hordeum pusillum
89. Purple Sandgrass
Triplasis purpurea
90. Tapertip Flatsedge
Cyperus acuminatus
91. Hairy-Seed Paspalum
Paspalum pubiflorum
92. Gulfdune Paspalum
Paspalum monostachyum
93. Horned Beaksedge
Rhynchospora corniculata
94. Needleleaf Rosette Grass
Dichanthelium aciculare
95. Lopsided Indian Grass
Rottboellia rugosa
96. Toothed Paspalum
Paspalum denticulatum
97. Broadleaf Signalgrass
Urochloa platyphylla
98. Angleton Grass
Dichanthium aristatum
99. Gulf Cordgrass
Sporobolus spartinae
100. Itch Grass
Rottboellia campestris
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