This list shows 84 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. Blue Wood Sedge
Carex flaccosperma
16. Purple Threeawn
Aristida purpurea
17. Slender Rush
Juncus tenuis
18. Virginia Wildrye
Elymus virginicus
19. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
20. Common Spike-Rush
Eleocharis palustris
21. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
22. Texas Sedge
Carex texensis
23. Rice Cutgrass
Leersia oryzoides
24. Slender Woodoats
Chasmanthium laxum
25. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
26. Hairy Grama
Bouteloua hirsuta
27. Texas Wintergrass
Nassella leucotricha
28. Fox Sedge
Carex vulpinoidea
29. Bushy Bluestem
Andropogon glomeratus
30. Common Woodland Sedge
Carex blanda
31. Torrey’s Rush
Juncus torreyi
32. Rufous Bulrush
Scirpus pendulus
33. Hairy Woodland Brome
Bromus pubescens
34. Leavenworth’s Sedge
Carex leavenworthii
35. Nimblewill
Muhlenbergia schreberi
36. Raven’s Foot Sedge
Carex crus-corvi
37. Bush’s Sedge
Carex bushii
38. Sand Spikerush
Eleocharis montevidensis
39. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
40. Texas Bluegrass
Poa arachnifera
41. Thin Paspalum
Paspalum setaceum
42. Softstem Bulrush
Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani
43. Broomsedge Bluestem
Andropogon virginicus
44. Shortbeak Sedge
Carex brevior
45. Purpletop Tridens
Tridens flavus
46. Blunt Spikerush
Eleocharis obtusa
47. Rough Dropseed
Sporobolus compositus
48. Emory’s Sedge
Carex emoryi
49. Witchgrass
Panicum capillare
50. Silver Bluestem
Bothriochloa saccharoides
51. Plains Lovegrass
Eragrostis intermedia
52. Vine Mesquite
Hopia obtusa
53. Frank’s Sedge
Carex frankii
54. Oval-Leaf Sedge
Carex cephalophora
55. Interior Rush
Juncus interior
56. Sand Sedge
Carex muehlenbergii
57. Giant Cutgrass
Zizaniopsis miliacea
58. Common Threesquare
Schoenoplectus pungens
59. Dudley’s Rush
Juncus dudleyi
60. Squarestem Spikerush
Eleocharis quadrangulata
61. Silver Beardgrass
Bothriochloa laguroides
62. Globe Flatsedge
Cyperus echinatus
63. Flat-Stemmed Spike-Rush
Eleocharis compressa
64. Margined Rush
Juncus marginatus
65. Red-Rooted Flatsedge
Cyperus erythrorhizos
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. Woodland Bluegrass
Poa sylvestris
80. Green Sprangletop
Disakisperma dubium
81. Broadleaf Signalgrass
Urochloa platyphylla
82. Mucronate Sprangletop
Leptochloa panicea
83. Itch Grass
Rottboellia campestris
84. Texas Signalgrass
Urochloa texana
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