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. Awl-Fruited Sedge
Carex stipata
9. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
10. Sand Dropseed
Sporobolus cryptandrus
11. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
12. California Oatgrass
Danthonia californica
13. California Brome
Bromus carinatus
14. Common Rush
Juncus effusus
15. Slender Rush
Juncus tenuis
16. Common Spike-Rush
Eleocharis palustris
17. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
18. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
19. Hardstem Bulrush
Schoenoplectus acutus
20. Rice Cutgrass
Leersia oryzoides
21. Panicled Bulrush
Scirpus microcarpus
22. Baltic Rush
Juncus balticus
23. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
24. Nodding Needlegrass
Nassella cernua
25. Reed Canary Grass
Phalaris arundinacea
26. Splitawn Sedge
Carex tumulicola
27. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
28. California Melicgrass
Melica californica
29. Purple Needlegrass
Nassella pulchra
30. Slender Hairgrass
Deschampsia elongata
31. Foothill Needlegrass
Nassella lepida
32. Foxtail Pricklegrass
Sporobolus alopecuroides
33. Slough Sedge
Carex obnupta
34. Chairmaker’s Bulrush
Schoenoplectus americanus
35. Foxtail Barley
Hordeum jubatum
36. Blunt Spikerush
Eleocharis obtusa
37. Meadow Barley
Hordeum brachyantherum
38. Witchgrass
Panicum capillare
39. Sword-Leaved Rush
Juncus ensifolius
40. Squirreltail
Elymus elymoides
41. American Sloughgrass
Beckmannia syzigachne
42. Torrey’s Melicgrass
Melica torreyana
43. Big Squirreltail
Elymus multisetus
44. Needle Spikerush
Eleocharis acicularis
45. Common Threesquare
Schoenoplectus pungens
46. River Bulrush
Bolboschoenus fluviatilis
47. Seacoast Bulrush
Bolboschoenus robustus
48. Teal Lovegrass
Eragrostis hypnoides
49. Small Fescue
Festuca microstachys
50. Western Rush
Juncus occidentalis
51. Red-Rooted Flatsedge
Cyperus erythrorhizos
52. Beaked Spikerush
Eleocharis rostellata
53. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
54. Annual Hairgrass
Deschampsia danthonioides
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. Pacific Rush
Juncus effusus subsp. pacificus
67. California Bulrush
Schoenoplectus californicus
68. Pointed Rush
Juncus oxymeris
69. Brown-Headed Rush
Juncus phaeocephalus
70. Northwestern Mannagrass
Glyceria occidentalis
71. Swamp Sedge
Carex senta
72. Bolander’s Rush
Juncus bolanderi
73. Pacific Woodrush
Luzula comosa
74. Chinook Brome
Bromus laevipes
75. Green Fescue
Festuca viridula
76. Small-Leaf Bentgrass
Agrostis microphylla
77. Mexican Rush
Juncus mexicanus
78. Bearded Sprangletop
Diplachne fusca subsp. fascicularis
79. Carolina Foxtail
Alopecurus carolinianus
80. Gray Sedge
Graphephorum canescens
81. Tapertip Flatsedge
Cyperus acuminatus
82. Lemmon’s Needlegrass
Eriocoma lemmonii
83. Smallbract Sedge
Carex subbracteata
84. California Barley
Hordeum californicum
85. Wrinkled Rush
Juncus dubius
86. Columbia Brome
Bromus vulgaris
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