This list shows 85 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. Slender Rush
Juncus tenuis
17. Virginia Wildrye
Elymus virginicus
18. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
19. Common Spike-Rush
Eleocharis palustris
20. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
21. Texas Sedge
Carex texensis
22. Rice Cutgrass
Leersia oryzoides
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. Hairy Wildrye
Elymus villosus
31. Rufous Bulrush
Scirpus pendulus
32. Hairy Woodland Brome
Bromus pubescens
33. Leavenworth’s Sedge
Carex leavenworthii
34. Nimblewill
Muhlenbergia schreberi
35. Raven’s Foot Sedge
Carex crus-corvi
36. Sand Spikerush
Eleocharis montevidensis
37. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
38. Texas Meadow Sedge
Carex perdentata
39. Texas Bluegrass
Poa arachnifera
40. Thin Paspalum
Paspalum setaceum
41. Broomsedge Bluestem
Andropogon virginicus
42. Shortbeak Sedge
Carex brevior
43. Purpletop Tridens
Tridens flavus
44. Blunt Spikerush
Eleocharis obtusa
45. Rough Dropseed
Sporobolus compositus
46. Emory’s Sedge
Carex emoryi
47. Witchgrass
Panicum capillare
48. Tapered Rosette Grass
Panicum acuminatum
49. Silver Bluestem
Bothriochloa saccharoides
50. Sixweeks Fescue
Vulpia octoflora
51. Plains Lovegrass
Eragrostis intermedia
52. Vine Mesquite
Hopia obtusa
53. Oval-Leaf Sedge
Carex cephalophora
54. Interior Rush
Juncus interior
55. Sand Sedge
Carex muehlenbergii
56. Giant Cutgrass
Zizaniopsis miliacea
57. Dudley’s Rush
Juncus dudleyi
58. Squarestem Spikerush
Eleocharis quadrangulata
59. Silver Beardgrass
Bothriochloa laguroides
60. Globe Flatsedge
Cyperus echinatus
61. Margined Rush
Juncus marginatus
62. Red-Rooted Flatsedge
Cyperus erythrorhizos
63. Shortfruit Rush
Juncus brachycarpus
64. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
65. Red Grama
Bouteloua trifida
66. Hall’s Panicgrass
Panicum hallii
67. Prairie Wedgescale
Sphenopholis obtusata
68. Fall Panicgrass
Panicum dichotomiflorum
69. Fendler Threeawn
Aristida longiseta
70. Beaked Panic Grass
Coleataenia anceps
71. Winter Bentgrass
Agrostis hyemalis
72. Scribner’s Panic Grass
Dichanthelium scribnerianum
73. Longspike Tridens
Tridens strictus
74. Little Barley
Hordeum pusillum
75. Carolina Foxtail
Alopecurus carolinianus
76. Purple Sandgrass
Triplasis purpurea
77. Tapertip Flatsedge
Cyperus acuminatus
78. Hairy-Seed Paspalum
Paspalum pubiflorum
79. Green Sprangletop
Disakisperma dubium
80. Broadleaf Signalgrass
Urochloa platyphylla
81. Mucronate Sprangletop
Leptochloa panicea
82. Mexican Sprangletop
Diplachne fusca subsp. uninervia
83. Southwestern Bristle Grass
Setaria scheelei
84. Itch Grass
Rottboellia campestris
85. Texas Signalgrass
Urochloa texana
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