This list shows 82 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. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
10. California Oatgrass
Danthonia californica
11. Pacific Reedgrass
Calamagrostis nutkaensis
12. California Brome
Bromus carinatus
13. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
14. Western Fescue
Festuca occidentalis
15. Common Rush
Juncus effusus
16. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
17. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
18. Hardstem Bulrush
Schoenoplectus acutus
19. Panicled Bulrush
Scirpus microcarpus
20. Baltic Rush
Juncus balticus
21. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
22. Roemer’s Fescue
Festuca idahoensis subsp. roemeri
23. Reed Canary Grass
Phalaris arundinacea
24. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
25. Splitawn Sedge
Carex tumulicola
26. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
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. Slough Sedge
Carex obnupta
33. Chairmaker’s Bulrush
Schoenoplectus americanus
34. Foxtail Barley
Hordeum jubatum
35. Meadow Barley
Hordeum brachyantherum
36. Sixweeks Fescue
Vulpia octoflora
37. American Dunegrass
Leymus mollis
38. Squirreltail
Elymus elymoides
39. Torrey’s Melicgrass
Melica torreyana
40. Big Squirreltail
Elymus multisetus
41. Needle Spikerush
Eleocharis acicularis
42. Common Threesquare
Schoenoplectus pungens
43. Chamisso Sedge
Carex pachystachya
44. Seacoast Bulrush
Bolboschoenus robustus
45. Pinegrass
Calamagrostis rubescens
46. California Bottlebrush Grass
Elymus californicus
47. Small Fescue
Festuca microstachys
48. Western Rush
Juncus occidentalis
49. Bog Rush
Juncus hesperius
50. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
51. Annual Hairgrass
Deschampsia danthonioides
52. Maritime Brome
Bromus maritimus
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. Bigleaf Sedge
Carex amplifolia
61. Mountain Brome
Bromus marginatus
62. Spike Bentgrass
Agrostis exarata
63. Torrent Sedge
Carex nudata
64. Roundfruit Sedge
Carex globosa
65. Pacific Rush
Juncus effusus subsp. pacificus
66. Vanilla Grass
Hierochloe occidentalis
67. California Bulrush
Schoenoplectus californicus
68. Brown-Headed Rush
Juncus phaeocephalus
69. Slender-Footed Sedge
Carex leptopoda
70. Swamp Sedge
Carex senta
71. Pacific Woodrush
Luzula comosa
72. Alaska Oniongrass
Melica subulata
73. Small-Leaf Bentgrass
Agrostis microphylla
74. Bearded Sprangletop
Diplachne fusca subsp. fascicularis
75. California Hair Grass
Deschampsia cespitosa subsp. holciformis
76. Gray Sedge
Graphephorum canescens
77. Harford’s Sedge
Carex harfordii
78. Smallbract Sedge
Carex subbracteata
79. California Canarygrass
Phalaris californica
80. California Barley
Hordeum californicum
81. Dwarf Barley
Hordeum depressum
82. Falcate Rush
Juncus falcatus
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