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. Idaho Fescue
Festuca idahoensis
2. California Fescue
Festuca californica
3. Tufted Hairgrass
Deschampsia cespitosa
4. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
5. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
6. Spreading Rush
Juncus patens
7. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
8. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
9. Sand Dropseed
Sporobolus cryptandrus
10. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
11. California Oatgrass
Danthonia californica
12. California Brome
Bromus carinatus
13. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
14. Common Rush
Juncus effusus
15. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
16. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
17. Hardstem Bulrush
Schoenoplectus acutus
18. Panicled Bulrush
Scirpus microcarpus
19. Baltic Rush
Juncus balticus
20. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
21. Nodding Needlegrass
Nassella cernua
22. Reed Canary Grass
Phalaris arundinacea
23. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
24. Splitawn Sedge
Carex tumulicola
25. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
26. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
27. California Melicgrass
Melica californica
28. Purple Needlegrass
Nassella pulchra
29. Slender Hairgrass
Deschampsia elongata
30. Foothill Needlegrass
Nassella lepida
31. Foxtail Pricklegrass
Sporobolus alopecuroides
32. Slough Sedge
Carex obnupta
33. Chairmaker’s Bulrush
Schoenoplectus americanus
34. Foxtail Barley
Hordeum jubatum
35. Meadow Barley
Hordeum brachyantherum
36. Sixweeks Fescue
Vulpia octoflora
37. Squirreltail
Elymus elymoides
38. American Sloughgrass
Beckmannia syzigachne
39. Torrey’s Melicgrass
Melica torreyana
40. Big Squirreltail
Elymus multisetus
41. Needle Spikerush
Eleocharis acicularis
42. River Bulrush
Bolboschoenus fluviatilis
43. Seacoast Bulrush
Bolboschoenus robustus
44. Pinegrass
Calamagrostis rubescens
45. Teal Lovegrass
Eragrostis hypnoides
46. Small Fescue
Festuca microstachys
47. Western Rush
Juncus occidentalis
48. Bog Rush
Juncus hesperius
49. Red-Rooted Flatsedge
Cyperus erythrorhizos
50. Beaked Spikerush
Eleocharis rostellata
51. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
52. Annual Hairgrass
Deschampsia danthonioides
53. Maritime Brome
Bromus maritimus
54. Oniongrass
Melica bulbosa
55. Santa Barbara Sedge
Carex barbarae
56. Dense Sedge
Carex densa
57. Pale Spikerush
Eleocharis macrostachya
58. Seaside Arrowgrass
Triglochin maritima
59. Tall Flatsedge
Cyperus eragrostis
60. Broad-Glumed Wheatgrass
Elymus violaceus
61. Toad Rush
Juncus bufonius
62. Mountain Brome
Bromus marginatus
63. Spike Bentgrass
Agrostis exarata
64. Torrent Sedge
Carex nudata
65. Roundfruit Sedge
Carex globosa
66. Pacific Rush
Juncus effusus subsp. pacificus
67. California Bulrush
Schoenoplectus californicus
68. Pointed Rush
Juncus oxymeris
69. Brown-Headed Rush
Juncus phaeocephalus
70. Northwestern Mannagrass
Glyceria occidentalis
71. Swamp Sedge
Carex senta
72. Pacific Woodrush
Luzula comosa
73. Chinook Brome
Bromus laevipes
74. Green Fescue
Festuca viridula
75. Small-Leaf Bentgrass
Agrostis microphylla
76. Mexican Rush
Juncus mexicanus
77. Bearded Sprangletop
Diplachne fusca subsp. fascicularis
78. Little Barley
Hordeum pusillum
79. California Hair Grass
Deschampsia cespitosa subsp. holciformis
80. Gray Sedge
Graphephorum canescens
81. Smallbract Sedge
Carex subbracteata
82. California Barley
Hordeum californicum
83. Dwarf Barley
Hordeum depressum
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