This list shows 75 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. California Fescue
Festuca californica
2. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
3. Deergrass
Muhlenbergia rigens
4. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
5. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
6. Purple Threeawn
Aristida purpurea
7. Sand Dropseed
Sporobolus cryptandrus
8. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
9. California Brome
Bromus carinatus
10. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
11. Common Rush
Juncus effusus
12. Common Spike-Rush
Eleocharis palustris
13. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
14. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
15. Hardstem Bulrush
Schoenoplectus acutus
16. Panicled Bulrush
Scirpus microcarpus
17. Baltic Rush
Juncus balticus
18. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
19. Nodding Needlegrass
Nassella cernua
20. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
21. Bushy Bluestem
Andropogon glomeratus
22. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
23. Torrey’s Rush
Juncus torreyi
24. Purple Needlegrass
Nassella pulchra
25. Foothill Needlegrass
Nassella lepida
26. Basket Rush
Juncus textilis
27. Sand Spikerush
Eleocharis montevidensis
28. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
29. Chairmaker’s Bulrush
Schoenoplectus americanus
30. Foxtail Barley
Hordeum jubatum
31. Meadow Barley
Hordeum brachyantherum
32. Golden Sedge
Carex aurea
33. Witchgrass
Panicum capillare
34. Tapered Rosette Grass
Panicum acuminatum
35. Sixweeks Fescue
Vulpia octoflora
36. Squirreltail
Elymus elymoides
37. Scratchgrass
Muhlenbergia asperifolia
38. Big Squirreltail
Elymus multisetus
39. Needle Spikerush
Eleocharis acicularis
40. Woolly Sedge
Carex pellita
41. Bearded Sprangletop
Diplachne fusca
42. Muttongrass
Poa fendleriana
43. Small Fescue
Festuca microstachys
44. Red-Rooted Flatsedge
Cyperus erythrorhizos
45. Beaked Spikerush
Eleocharis rostellata
46. California Satintail
Imperata brevifolia
47. Nodding Brome
Bromus anomalus
48. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
49. Annual Hairgrass
Deschampsia danthonioides
50. Douglas’ Sedge
Carex douglasii
51. Santa Barbara Sedge
Carex barbarae
52. Pale Spikerush
Eleocharis macrostachya
53. Tall Flatsedge
Cyperus eragrostis
54. Broad-Glumed Wheatgrass
Elymus violaceus
55. Toad Rush
Juncus bufonius
56. Spike Bentgrass
Agrostis exarata
57. Prairie Wedgescale
Sphenopholis obtusata
58. California Bulrush
Schoenoplectus californicus
59. Pointed Rush
Juncus oxymeris
60. Brown-Headed Rush
Juncus phaeocephalus
61. Swamp Sedge
Carex senta
62. Desert Needlegrass
Stipa speciosa
63. Smooth Flatsedge
Cyperus laevigatus
64. Indian Ricegrass
Eriocoma hymenoides
65. Mexican Rush
Juncus mexicanus
66. Little Barley
Hordeum pusillum
67. Crested Needlegrass
Eriocoma coronata
68. Tapertip Flatsedge
Cyperus acuminatus
69. Littleseed Muhly
Muhlenbergia microsperma
70. Wright Threeawn
Aristida wrightii
71. Wrinkled Rush
Juncus dubius
72. Wrinkled Rush
Juncus rugulosus
73. Sixweeks Threeawn
Aristida adscensionis
74. Mexican Sprangletop
Diplachne fusca subsp. uninervia
75. Schott’s Sedge
Carex schottii
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