This list shows 76 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. Common Rush
Juncus effusus
15. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
16. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
17. Hardstem Bulrush
Schoenoplectus acutus
18. Panicled Bulrush
Scirpus microcarpus
19. Baltic Rush
Juncus balticus
20. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
21. Reed Canary Grass
Phalaris arundinacea
22. Splitawn Sedge
Carex tumulicola
23. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
24. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
25. California Melicgrass
Melica californica
26. Purple Needlegrass
Nassella pulchra
27. Slender Hairgrass
Deschampsia elongata
28. Foothill Needlegrass
Nassella lepida
29. Chairmaker’s Bulrush
Schoenoplectus americanus
30. Foxtail Barley
Hordeum jubatum
31. Meadow Barley
Hordeum brachyantherum
32. Sixweeks Fescue
Vulpia octoflora
33. Squirreltail
Elymus elymoides
34. American Sloughgrass
Beckmannia syzigachne
35. Torrey’s Melicgrass
Melica torreyana
36. Big Squirreltail
Elymus multisetus
37. Needle Spikerush
Eleocharis acicularis
38. Common Threesquare
Schoenoplectus pungens
39. Seacoast Bulrush
Bolboschoenus robustus
40. California Bottlebrush Grass
Elymus californicus
41. Small Fescue
Festuca microstachys
42. Western Rush
Juncus occidentalis
43. Bog Rush
Juncus hesperius
44. Red-Rooted Flatsedge
Cyperus erythrorhizos
45. Beaked Spikerush
Eleocharis rostellata
46. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
47. Annual Hairgrass
Deschampsia danthonioides
48. Maritime Brome
Bromus maritimus
49. Oniongrass
Melica bulbosa
50. Santa Barbara Sedge
Carex barbarae
51. Dense Sedge
Carex densa
52. Pale Spikerush
Eleocharis macrostachya
53. Seaside Arrowgrass
Triglochin maritima
54. Tall Flatsedge
Cyperus eragrostis
55. Broad-Glumed Wheatgrass
Elymus violaceus
56. Toad Rush
Juncus bufonius
57. Mountain Brome
Bromus marginatus
58. Spike Bentgrass
Agrostis exarata
59. Torrent Sedge
Carex nudata
60. Roundfruit Sedge
Carex globosa
61. Pacific Rush
Juncus effusus subsp. pacificus
62. California Bulrush
Schoenoplectus californicus
63. Brown-Headed Rush
Juncus phaeocephalus
64. Northwestern Mannagrass
Glyceria occidentalis
65. Swamp Sedge
Carex senta
66. Pacific Woodrush
Luzula comosa
67. Chinook Brome
Bromus laevipes
68. Bearded Sprangletop
Diplachne fusca subsp. fascicularis
69. California Hair Grass
Deschampsia cespitosa subsp. holciformis
70. Gray Sedge
Graphephorum canescens
71. Harford’s Sedge
Carex harfordii
72. Smallbract Sedge
Carex subbracteata
73. California Canarygrass
Phalaris californica
74. California Barley
Hordeum californicum
75. Dwarf Barley
Hordeum depressum
76. Columbia Brome
Bromus vulgaris
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