This list shows 71 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. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
2. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
3. Deergrass
Muhlenbergia rigens
4. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
5. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
6. Purple Threeawn
Aristida purpurea
7. Sand Dropseed
Sporobolus cryptandrus
8. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
9. California Brome
Bromus carinatus
10. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
11. Common Rush
Juncus effusus
12. Common Spike-Rush
Eleocharis palustris
13. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
14. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
15. Hardstem Bulrush
Schoenoplectus acutus
16. Panicled Bulrush
Scirpus microcarpus
17. Baltic Rush
Juncus balticus
18. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
19. Rough Bentgrass
Agrostis scabra
20. Nodding Needlegrass
Nassella cernua
21. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
22. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
23. Torrey’s Rush
Juncus torreyi
24. Sea Clubrush
Bolboschoenus maritimus
25. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
26. Purple Needlegrass
Nassella pulchra
27. Foothill Needlegrass
Nassella lepida
28. Sand Spikerush
Eleocharis montevidensis
29. Chairmaker’s Bulrush
Schoenoplectus americanus
30. Foxtail Barley
Hordeum jubatum
31. Golden Sedge
Carex aurea
32. Witchgrass
Panicum capillare
33. Tapered Rosette Grass
Panicum acuminatum
34. Sixweeks Fescue
Vulpia octoflora
35. Squirreltail
Elymus elymoides
36. Scratchgrass
Muhlenbergia asperifolia
37. Needle Spikerush
Eleocharis acicularis
38. Woolly Sedge
Carex pellita
39. Bearded Sprangletop
Diplachne fusca
40. Small Fescue
Festuca microstachys
41. Red-Rooted Flatsedge
Cyperus erythrorhizos
42. California Satintail
Imperata brevifolia
43. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
44. Annual Hairgrass
Deschampsia danthonioides
45. Santa Barbara Sedge
Carex barbarae
46. Pale Spikerush
Eleocharis macrostachya
47. Tall Flatsedge
Cyperus eragrostis
48. Toad Rush
Juncus bufonius
49. Prairie Wedgescale
Sphenopholis obtusata
50. Roundfruit Sedge
Carex globosa
51. California Bulrush
Schoenoplectus californicus
52. Pointed Rush
Juncus oxymeris
53. Swamp Sedge
Carex senta
54. Fragrant Flatsedge
Cyperus odoratus
55. Desert Needlegrass
Stipa speciosa
56. Indian Ricegrass
Eriocoma hymenoides
57. Mexican Rush
Juncus mexicanus
58. Bearded Sprangletop
Diplachne fusca subsp. fascicularis
59. Nuttall’s Alkaligrass
Puccinellia nuttalliana
60. Little Barley
Hordeum pusillum
61. Crested Needlegrass
Eriocoma coronata
62. Nealley’s Three-awn
Aristida glauca
63. Tapertip Flatsedge
Cyperus acuminatus
64. Littleseed Muhly
Muhlenbergia microsperma
65. California Barley
Hordeum californicum
66. Wright Threeawn
Aristida wrightii
67. Wrinkled Rush
Juncus dubius
68. Dwarf Barley
Hordeum depressum
69. Wrinkled Rush
Juncus rugulosus
70. Sixweeks Threeawn
Aristida adscensionis
71. Mexican Sprangletop
Diplachne fusca subsp. uninervia
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