This list shows 72 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. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
8. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
9. California Oatgrass
Danthonia californica
10. California Brome
Bromus carinatus
11. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
12. Common Rush
Juncus effusus
13. Slender Rush
Juncus tenuis
14. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
15. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
16. Hardstem Bulrush
Schoenoplectus acutus
17. Baltic Rush
Juncus balticus
18. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
19. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
20. Sea Clubrush
Bolboschoenus maritimus
21. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
22. California Melicgrass
Melica californica
23. Purple Needlegrass
Nassella pulchra
24. Slender Hairgrass
Deschampsia elongata
25. Foothill Needlegrass
Nassella lepida
26. Longhair Sedge
Carex comosa
27. Chairmaker’s Bulrush
Schoenoplectus americanus
28. Foxtail Barley
Hordeum jubatum
29. Meadow Barley
Hordeum brachyantherum
30. Witchgrass
Panicum capillare
31. Sixweeks Fescue
Vulpia octoflora
32. Squirreltail
Elymus elymoides
33. American Sloughgrass
Beckmannia syzigachne
34. Torrey’s Melicgrass
Melica torreyana
35. Big Squirreltail
Elymus multisetus
36. River Bulrush
Bolboschoenus fluviatilis
37. Seacoast Bulrush
Bolboschoenus robustus
38. Teal Lovegrass
Eragrostis hypnoides
39. Small Fescue
Festuca microstachys
40. Western Rush
Juncus occidentalis
41. Bog Rush
Juncus hesperius
42. Red-Rooted Flatsedge
Cyperus erythrorhizos
43. Beaked Spikerush
Eleocharis rostellata
44. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
45. Annual Hairgrass
Deschampsia danthonioides
46. Maritime Brome
Bromus maritimus
47. Santa Barbara Sedge
Carex barbarae
48. Dense Sedge
Carex densa
49. Pale Spikerush
Eleocharis macrostachya
50. Seaside Arrowgrass
Triglochin maritima
51. Tall Flatsedge
Cyperus eragrostis
52. Broad-Glumed Wheatgrass
Elymus violaceus
53. Toad Rush
Juncus bufonius
54. Spike Bentgrass
Agrostis exarata
55. Torrent Sedge
Carex nudata
56. Pacific Rush
Juncus effusus subsp. pacificus
57. California Bulrush
Schoenoplectus californicus
58. Brown-Headed Rush
Juncus phaeocephalus
59. Northwestern Mannagrass
Glyceria occidentalis
60. Swamp Sedge
Carex senta
61. Pacific Woodrush
Luzula comosa
62. Chinook Brome
Bromus laevipes
63. Green Fescue
Festuca viridula
64. Bearded Sprangletop
Diplachne fusca subsp. fascicularis
65. Nuttall’s Alkaligrass
Puccinellia nuttalliana
66. Gray Sedge
Graphephorum canescens
67. Smallbract Sedge
Carex subbracteata
68. California Canarygrass
Phalaris californica
69. California Barley
Hordeum californicum
70. Wrinkled Rush
Juncus dubius
71. Dwarf Barley
Hordeum depressum
72. Columbia Brome
Bromus vulgaris
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