This list shows 79 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. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
9. Sand Dropseed
Sporobolus cryptandrus
10. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
11. California Oatgrass
Danthonia californica
12. California Brome
Bromus carinatus
13. Common Rush
Juncus effusus
14. Slender Rush
Juncus tenuis
15. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
16. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
17. Hardstem Bulrush
Schoenoplectus acutus
18. Rice Cutgrass
Leersia oryzoides
19. Panicled Bulrush
Scirpus microcarpus
20. Baltic Rush
Juncus balticus
21. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
22. Reed Canary Grass
Phalaris arundinacea
23. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
24. Splitawn Sedge
Carex tumulicola
25. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
26. Sea Clubrush
Bolboschoenus maritimus
27. California Melicgrass
Melica californica
28. Purple Needlegrass
Nassella pulchra
29. Slender Hairgrass
Deschampsia elongata
30. Foothill Needlegrass
Nassella lepida
31. Foxtail Pricklegrass
Sporobolus alopecuroides
32. Longhair Sedge
Carex comosa
33. Chairmaker’s Bulrush
Schoenoplectus americanus
34. Foxtail Barley
Hordeum jubatum
35. Meadow Barley
Hordeum brachyantherum
36. Witchgrass
Panicum capillare
37. Sixweeks Fescue
Vulpia octoflora
38. Squirreltail
Elymus elymoides
39. American Sloughgrass
Beckmannia syzigachne
40. Torrey’s Melicgrass
Melica torreyana
41. Big Squirreltail
Elymus multisetus
42. Common Threesquare
Schoenoplectus pungens
43. River Bulrush
Bolboschoenus fluviatilis
44. Seacoast Bulrush
Bolboschoenus robustus
45. Teal Lovegrass
Eragrostis hypnoides
46. Small Fescue
Festuca microstachys
47. Red-Rooted Flatsedge
Cyperus erythrorhizos
48. Beaked Spikerush
Eleocharis rostellata
49. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
50. Annual Hairgrass
Deschampsia danthonioides
51. Maritime Brome
Bromus maritimus
52. Oniongrass
Melica bulbosa
53. Santa Barbara Sedge
Carex barbarae
54. Dense Sedge
Carex densa
55. Pale Spikerush
Eleocharis macrostachya
56. Seaside Arrowgrass
Triglochin maritima
57. Tall Flatsedge
Cyperus eragrostis
58. Broad-Glumed Wheatgrass
Elymus violaceus
59. Toad Rush
Juncus bufonius
60. Spike Bentgrass
Agrostis exarata
61. Torrent Sedge
Carex nudata
62. Pacific Rush
Juncus effusus subsp. pacificus
63. California Bulrush
Schoenoplectus californicus
64. Pointed Rush
Juncus oxymeris
65. Brown-Headed Rush
Juncus phaeocephalus
66. Northwestern Mannagrass
Glyceria occidentalis
67. Swamp Sedge
Carex senta
68. Pacific Woodrush
Luzula comosa
69. Chinook Brome
Bromus laevipes
70. Green Fescue
Festuca viridula
71. Small-Leaf Bentgrass
Agrostis microphylla
72. Mexican Rush
Juncus mexicanus
73. Bearded Sprangletop
Diplachne fusca subsp. fascicularis
74. Nuttall’s Alkaligrass
Puccinellia nuttalliana
75. California Hair Grass
Deschampsia cespitosa subsp. holciformis
76. Gray Sedge
Graphephorum canescens
77. Smallbract Sedge
Carex subbracteata
78. California Barley
Hordeum californicum
79. Dwarf Barley
Hordeum depressum
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