This list shows 66 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. Baltic Rush
Juncus balticus
17. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
18. San Diego Sedge
Carex spissa
19. Nodding Needlegrass
Nassella cernua
20. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
21. Bushy Bluestem
Andropogon glomeratus
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. Basket Rush
Juncus textilis
29. Sand Spikerush
Eleocharis montevidensis
30. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
31. Chairmaker’s Bulrush
Schoenoplectus americanus
32. Meadow Barley
Hordeum brachyantherum
33. Witchgrass
Panicum capillare
34. Sixweeks Fescue
Vulpia octoflora
35. Spiny Rush
Juncus acutus
36. Scratchgrass
Muhlenbergia asperifolia
37. Big Squirreltail
Elymus multisetus
38. Needle Spikerush
Eleocharis acicularis
39. Common Threesquare
Schoenoplectus pungens
40. Tanglehead
Heteropogon contortus
41. Small Fescue
Festuca microstachys
42. Red-Rooted Flatsedge
Cyperus erythrorhizos
43. Spike Dropseed
Sporobolus contractus
44. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
45. Annual Hairgrass
Deschampsia danthonioides
46. Santa Barbara Sedge
Carex barbarae
47. Pale Spikerush
Eleocharis macrostachya
48. Tall Flatsedge
Cyperus eragrostis
49. Toad Rush
Juncus bufonius
50. Spike Bentgrass
Agrostis exarata
51. California Bulrush
Schoenoplectus californicus
52. Pointed Rush
Juncus oxymeris
53. False Nutsedge
Cyperus strigosus
54. Fragrant Flatsedge
Cyperus odoratus
55. Smooth Flatsedge
Cyperus laevigatus
56. Small-Leaf Bentgrass
Agrostis microphylla
57. Mexican Rush
Juncus mexicanus
58. Bearded Sprangletop
Diplachne fusca subsp. fascicularis
59. Little Barley
Hordeum pusillum
60. Crested Needlegrass
Eriocoma coronata
61. Littleseed Muhly
Muhlenbergia microsperma
62. California Barley
Hordeum californicum
63. Wrinkled Rush
Juncus dubius
64. Dwarf Barley
Hordeum depressum
65. Sixweeks Threeawn
Aristida adscensionis
66. Mexican Sprangletop
Diplachne fusca subsp. uninervia
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