This list shows 71 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. Panicled Bulrush
Scirpus microcarpus
17. Baltic Rush
Juncus balticus
18. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
19. San Diego Sedge
Carex spissa
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. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
26. Purple Needlegrass
Nassella pulchra
27. Foothill Needlegrass
Nassella lepida
28. Sand Spikerush
Eleocharis montevidensis
29. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
30. Chairmaker’s Bulrush
Schoenoplectus americanus
31. Meadow Barley
Hordeum brachyantherum
32. Witchgrass
Panicum capillare
33. Tapered Rosette Grass
Panicum acuminatum
34. Sixweeks Fescue
Vulpia octoflora
35. Spiny Rush
Juncus acutus
36. Squirreltail
Elymus elymoides
37. Scratchgrass
Muhlenbergia asperifolia
38. Big Squirreltail
Elymus multisetus
39. Needle Spikerush
Eleocharis acicularis
40. Common Threesquare
Schoenoplectus pungens
41. Bearded Sprangletop
Diplachne fusca
42. Small Fescue
Festuca microstachys
43. Red-Rooted Flatsedge
Cyperus erythrorhizos
44. Spike Dropseed
Sporobolus contractus
45. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
46. Annual Hairgrass
Deschampsia danthonioides
47. Santa Barbara Sedge
Carex barbarae
48. Pale Spikerush
Eleocharis macrostachya
49. Tall Flatsedge
Cyperus eragrostis
50. Toad Rush
Juncus bufonius
51. Mountain Brome
Bromus marginatus
52. Spike Bentgrass
Agrostis exarata
53. California Bulrush
Schoenoplectus californicus
54. Pointed Rush
Juncus oxymeris
55. False Nutsedge
Cyperus strigosus
56. Swamp Sedge
Carex senta
57. Fragrant Flatsedge
Cyperus odoratus
58. Chinook Brome
Bromus laevipes
59. Mexican Rush
Juncus mexicanus
60. Bearded Sprangletop
Diplachne fusca subsp. fascicularis
61. Little Barley
Hordeum pusillum
62. Crested Needlegrass
Eriocoma coronata
63. Nealley’s Three-awn
Aristida glauca
64. Tapertip Flatsedge
Cyperus acuminatus
65. Littleseed Muhly
Muhlenbergia microsperma
66. Wright Threeawn
Aristida wrightii
67. Wrinkled Rush
Juncus dubius
68. Dwarf Barley
Hordeum depressum
69. Wrinkled Rush
Juncus rugulosus
70. Sixweeks Threeawn
Aristida adscensionis
71. Mexican Sprangletop
Diplachne fusca subsp. uninervia
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