This list shows 82 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. California Fescue
Festuca californica
2. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
3. Deergrass
Muhlenbergia rigens
4. Spreading Rush
Juncus patens
5. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
6. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
7. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
8. California Brome
Bromus carinatus
9. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
10. Common Rush
Juncus effusus
11. Common Spike-Rush
Eleocharis palustris
12. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
13. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
14. Hardstem Bulrush
Schoenoplectus acutus
15. Panicled Bulrush
Scirpus microcarpus
16. Baltic Rush
Juncus balticus
17. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
18. Nodding Needlegrass
Nassella cernua
19. Bushy Bluestem
Andropogon glomeratus
20. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
21. Torrey’s Rush
Juncus torreyi
22. Sea Clubrush
Bolboschoenus maritimus
23. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
24. Slender Hairgrass
Deschampsia elongata
25. Foothill Needlegrass
Nassella lepida
26. Basket Rush
Juncus textilis
27. Sand Spikerush
Eleocharis montevidensis
28. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
29. Chairmaker’s Bulrush
Schoenoplectus americanus
30. Foxtail Barley
Hordeum jubatum
31. Meadow Barley
Hordeum brachyantherum
32. Golden Sedge
Carex aurea
33. Witchgrass
Panicum capillare
34. Tapered Rosette Grass
Panicum acuminatum
35. Sixweeks Fescue
Vulpia octoflora
36. Scratchgrass
Muhlenbergia asperifolia
37. Big Squirreltail
Elymus multisetus
38. Needle Spikerush
Eleocharis acicularis
39. Woolly Sedge
Carex pellita
40. Seacoast Bulrush
Bolboschoenus robustus
41. Bearded Sprangletop
Diplachne fusca
42. Muttongrass
Poa fendleriana
43. Small Fescue
Festuca microstachys
44. Beaked Spikerush
Eleocharis rostellata
45. California Satintail
Imperata brevifolia
46. Nodding Brome
Bromus anomalus
47. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
48. Long-Stolon Bluegrass
Poa nervosa
49. Annual Hairgrass
Deschampsia danthonioides
50. Slender Cottongrass
Eriophorum gracile
51. Douglas’ Sedge
Carex douglasii
52. Poverty Threeawn
Aristida divaricata
53. Fowl Bluegrass
Poa palustris
54. Santa Barbara Sedge
Carex barbarae
55. Dense Sedge
Carex densa
56. Pale Spikerush
Eleocharis macrostachya
57. Tall Flatsedge
Cyperus eragrostis
58. Broad-Glumed Wheatgrass
Elymus violaceus
59. Toad Rush
Juncus bufonius
60. Mountain Brome
Bromus marginatus
61. Spike Bentgrass
Agrostis exarata
62. Prairie Wedgescale
Sphenopholis obtusata
63. California Bulrush
Schoenoplectus californicus
64. Pointed Rush
Juncus oxymeris
65. Swamp Sedge
Carex senta
66. Desert Needlegrass
Stipa speciosa
67. Smooth Flatsedge
Cyperus laevigatus
68. Chinook Brome
Bromus laevipes
69. Indian Ricegrass
Eriocoma hymenoides
70. Mexican Rush
Juncus mexicanus
71. Nuttall’s Alkaligrass
Puccinellia nuttalliana
72. Crested Needlegrass
Eriocoma coronata
73. Tapertip Flatsedge
Cyperus acuminatus
74. Littleseed Muhly
Muhlenbergia microsperma
75. California Barley
Hordeum californicum
76. Wright Threeawn
Aristida wrightii
77. Wrinkled Rush
Juncus dubius
78. Dwarf Barley
Hordeum depressum
79. Wrinkled Rush
Juncus rugulosus
80. Sixweeks Threeawn
Aristida adscensionis
81. Mexican Sprangletop
Diplachne fusca subsp. uninervia
82. Schott’s Sedge
Carex schottii
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