This list shows 75 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. Rice Cutgrass
Leersia oryzoides
17. Panicled Bulrush
Scirpus microcarpus
18. Baltic Rush
Juncus balticus
19. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
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. Purple Needlegrass
Nassella pulchra
26. Foothill Needlegrass
Nassella lepida
27. Sand Spikerush
Eleocharis montevidensis
28. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
29. Chairmaker’s Bulrush
Schoenoplectus americanus
30. Meadow Barley
Hordeum brachyantherum
31. Witchgrass
Panicum capillare
32. Tapered Rosette Grass
Panicum acuminatum
33. Sixweeks Fescue
Vulpia octoflora
34. Scratchgrass
Muhlenbergia asperifolia
35. Big Squirreltail
Elymus multisetus
36. Needle Spikerush
Eleocharis acicularis
37. Common Threesquare
Schoenoplectus pungens
38. Seacoast Bulrush
Bolboschoenus robustus
39. Bearded Sprangletop
Diplachne fusca
40. Small Fescue
Festuca microstachys
41. Red-Rooted Flatsedge
Cyperus erythrorhizos
42. Beaked Spikerush
Eleocharis rostellata
43. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
44. Annual Hairgrass
Deschampsia danthonioides
45. Douglas’ Sedge
Carex douglasii
46. Fowl Bluegrass
Poa palustris
47. Santa Barbara Sedge
Carex barbarae
48. Pale Spikerush
Eleocharis macrostachya
49. Tall Flatsedge
Cyperus eragrostis
50. Toad Rush
Juncus bufonius
51. Alaska Brome
Bromus sitchensis
52. Mountain Brome
Bromus marginatus
53. Spike Bentgrass
Agrostis exarata
54. Prairie Wedgescale
Sphenopholis obtusata
55. California Bulrush
Schoenoplectus californicus
56. Pointed Rush
Juncus oxymeris
57. Brown-Headed Rush
Juncus phaeocephalus
58. Swamp Sedge
Carex senta
59. Fragrant Flatsedge
Cyperus odoratus
60. Smooth Flatsedge
Cyperus laevigatus
61. Bent Spikerush
Eleocharis geniculata
62. Mexican Rush
Juncus mexicanus
63. Bearded Sprangletop
Diplachne fusca subsp. fascicularis
64. Nuttall’s Alkaligrass
Puccinellia nuttalliana
65. Little Barley
Hordeum pusillum
66. Crested Needlegrass
Eriocoma coronata
67. Tapertip Flatsedge
Cyperus acuminatus
68. Littleseed Muhly
Muhlenbergia microsperma
69. California Canarygrass
Phalaris californica
70. Wright Threeawn
Aristida wrightii
71. Wrinkled Rush
Juncus dubius
72. Dwarf Barley
Hordeum depressum
73. Wrinkled Rush
Juncus rugulosus
74. Sixweeks Threeawn
Aristida adscensionis
75. Mexican Sprangletop
Diplachne fusca subsp. uninervia
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