This list shows 80 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. Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
5. Indiangrass
Sorghastrum nutans
6. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
7. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
8. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
9. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
10. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
11. Gray’s Sedge
Carex grayi
12. Plantainleaf Sedge
Carex plantaginea
13. Creeping Sedge
Carex laxiculmis
14. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
15. Awl-Fruited Sedge
Carex stipata
16. Bottlebrush Grass
Elymus hystrix
17. Slender Rush
Juncus tenuis
18. Virginia Wildrye
Elymus virginicus
19. Bluejoint
Calamagrostis canadensis
20. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
21. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
22. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
23. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
24. Blue Sedge
Carex glaucodea
25. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
26. White Bear Sedge
Carex albursina
27. Fox Sedge
Carex vulpinoidea
28. Reed Canary Grass
Phalaris arundinacea
29. Creek Sedge
Carex amphibola
30. Dark Green Bulrush
Scirpus atrovirens
31. Fowl Mannagrass
Glyceria striata
32. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
33. Brome-Like Sedge
Carex bromoides
34. Hairy Wildrye
Elymus villosus
35. Crested Sedge
Carex cristatella
36. Rufous Bulrush
Scirpus pendulus
37. Hairy Woodland Brome
Bromus pubescens
38. Leavenworth’s Sedge
Carex leavenworthii
39. Bur-Reed Sedge
Carex sparganioides
40. Earlyleaf Brome
Bromus latiglumis
41. Pubescent Sedge
Carex hirtifolia
42. Woolgrass
Scirpus cyperinus
43. Longhair Sedge
Carex comosa
44. Sallow Sedge
Carex lurida
45. Shortbeak Sedge
Carex brevior
46. Purpletop Tridens
Tridens flavus
47. Blunt Spikerush
Eleocharis obtusa
48. Stout Woodreed
Cinna arundinacea
49. Greater Straw Sedge
Carex normalis
50. Rough Dropseed
Sporobolus compositus
51. Blunt Broom Sedge
Carex tribuloides
52. Limestone Meadow Sedge
Carex granularis
53. James’s Sedge
Carex jamesii
54. Mexican Muhly
Muhlenbergia mexicana
55. Swan’s Sedge
Carex swanii
56. Hop Sedge
Carex lupulina
57. Frank’s Sedge
Carex frankii
58. Lake Sedge
Carex lacustris
59. Short’s Sedge
Carex shortiana
60. Squarrose Sedge
Carex squarrosa
61. Oval-Leaf Sedge
Carex cephalophora
62. Cattail Sedge
Carex typhina
63. Ovate Spikerush
Eleocharis ovata
64. Arctic Brome
Bromus kalmii
65. Large Yellow Sedge
Carex flava
66. Dudley’s Rush
Juncus dudleyi
67. Soft Fox Sedge
Carex conjuncta
68. Upland Bentgrass
Agrostis perennans
69. Hairy Woodland Sedge
Carex hirsutella
70. Slender Looseflower Sedge
Carex gracilescens
71. Broad Loose-Flowered Sedge
Carex laxiflora
72. Fibrousroot Sedge
Carex communis
73. Slender Flatsedge
Cyperus bipartitus
74. White Grass
Leersia virginica
75. Fall Panicgrass
Panicum dichotomiflorum
76. False Nutsedge
Cyperus strigosus
77. Prairie Cordgrass
Sporobolus michauxianus
78. Carolina Foxtail
Alopecurus carolinianus
79. Broadleaf Rosette Grass
Dichanthelium latifolium
80. Woodland Bluegrass
Poa sylvestris
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