This list shows 86 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. Slender Rush
Juncus tenuis
16. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
17. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
18. Hardstem Bulrush
Schoenoplectus acutus
19. Rice Cutgrass
Leersia oryzoides
20. Panicled Bulrush
Scirpus microcarpus
21. Baltic Rush
Juncus balticus
22. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
23. Nodding Needlegrass
Nassella cernua
24. Reed Canary Grass
Phalaris arundinacea
25. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
26. Splitawn Sedge
Carex tumulicola
27. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
28. Sea Clubrush
Bolboschoenus maritimus
29. California Melicgrass
Melica californica
30. Purple Needlegrass
Nassella pulchra
31. Slender Hairgrass
Deschampsia elongata
32. Foothill Needlegrass
Nassella lepida
33. Foxtail Pricklegrass
Sporobolus alopecuroides
34. Longhair Sedge
Carex comosa
35. Chairmaker’s Bulrush
Schoenoplectus americanus
36. Foxtail Barley
Hordeum jubatum
37. Meadow Barley
Hordeum brachyantherum
38. Witchgrass
Panicum capillare
39. Squirreltail
Elymus elymoides
40. American Sloughgrass
Beckmannia syzigachne
41. Torrey’s Melicgrass
Melica torreyana
42. Big Squirreltail
Elymus multisetus
43. Needle Spikerush
Eleocharis acicularis
44. Common Threesquare
Schoenoplectus pungens
45. River Bulrush
Bolboschoenus fluviatilis
46. Seacoast Bulrush
Bolboschoenus robustus
47. Teal Lovegrass
Eragrostis hypnoides
48. Small Fescue
Festuca microstachys
49. Western Rush
Juncus occidentalis
50. Red-Rooted Flatsedge
Cyperus erythrorhizos
51. Beaked Spikerush
Eleocharis rostellata
52. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
53. Annual Hairgrass
Deschampsia danthonioides
54. Maritime Brome
Bromus maritimus
55. Oniongrass
Melica bulbosa
56. Santa Barbara Sedge
Carex barbarae
57. Dense Sedge
Carex densa
58. Pale Spikerush
Eleocharis macrostachya
59. Seaside Arrowgrass
Triglochin maritima
60. Tall Flatsedge
Cyperus eragrostis
61. Broad-Glumed Wheatgrass
Elymus violaceus
62. Toad Rush
Juncus bufonius
63. Mountain Brome
Bromus marginatus
64. Spike Bentgrass
Agrostis exarata
65. Torrent Sedge
Carex nudata
66. Roundfruit Sedge
Carex globosa
67. Pacific Rush
Juncus effusus subsp. pacificus
68. California Bulrush
Schoenoplectus californicus
69. Pointed Rush
Juncus oxymeris
70. Brown-Headed Rush
Juncus phaeocephalus
71. Northwestern Mannagrass
Glyceria occidentalis
72. Swamp Sedge
Carex senta
73. Bolander’s Rush
Juncus bolanderi
74. Pacific Woodrush
Luzula comosa
75. Chinook Brome
Bromus laevipes
76. Green Fescue
Festuca viridula
77. Small-Leaf Bentgrass
Agrostis microphylla
78. Mexican Rush
Juncus mexicanus
79. Bearded Sprangletop
Diplachne fusca subsp. fascicularis
80. Nuttall’s Alkaligrass
Puccinellia nuttalliana
81. California Hair Grass
Deschampsia cespitosa subsp. holciformis
82. Gray Sedge
Graphephorum canescens
83. Smallbract Sedge
Carex subbracteata
84. California Barley
Hordeum californicum
85. Dwarf Barley
Hordeum depressum
86. Western Needlegrass
Eriocoma occidentalis
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