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. 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. Rough Bentgrass
Agrostis scabra
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. Basket Rush
Juncus textilis
29. Sand Spikerush
Eleocharis montevidensis
30. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
31. Chairmaker’s Bulrush
Schoenoplectus americanus
32. Foxtail Barley
Hordeum jubatum
33. Meadow Barley
Hordeum brachyantherum
34. Golden Sedge
Carex aurea
35. Witchgrass
Panicum capillare
36. Tapered Rosette Grass
Panicum acuminatum
37. Sixweeks Fescue
Vulpia octoflora
38. Squirreltail
Elymus elymoides
39. Scratchgrass
Muhlenbergia asperifolia
40. Big Squirreltail
Elymus multisetus
41. Needle Spikerush
Eleocharis acicularis
42. Common Threesquare
Schoenoplectus pungens
43. Woolly Sedge
Carex pellita
44. Seacoast Bulrush
Bolboschoenus robustus
45. Bearded Sprangletop
Diplachne fusca
46. Muttongrass
Poa fendleriana
47. Small Fescue
Festuca microstachys
48. Alpine Fescue
Festuca brachyphylla
49. Red-Rooted Flatsedge
Cyperus erythrorhizos
50. California Satintail
Imperata brevifolia
51. Spike Dropseed
Sporobolus contractus
52. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
53. Annual Hairgrass
Deschampsia danthonioides
54. Santa Barbara Sedge
Carex barbarae
55. Pale Spikerush
Eleocharis macrostachya
56. Tall Flatsedge
Cyperus eragrostis
57. Toad Rush
Juncus bufonius
58. Alaska Brome
Bromus sitchensis
59. Spike Bentgrass
Agrostis exarata
60. Prairie Wedgescale
Sphenopholis obtusata
61. California Bulrush
Schoenoplectus californicus
62. Pointed Rush
Juncus oxymeris
63. Swamp Sedge
Carex senta
64. Fragrant Flatsedge
Cyperus odoratus
65. Desert Needlegrass
Stipa speciosa
66. Chinook Brome
Bromus laevipes
67. Mexican Rush
Juncus mexicanus
68. Nuttall’s Alkaligrass
Puccinellia nuttalliana
69. Little Barley
Hordeum pusillum
70. Crested Needlegrass
Eriocoma coronata
71. Nealley’s Three-awn
Aristida glauca
72. Tapertip Flatsedge
Cyperus acuminatus
73. Littleseed Muhly
Muhlenbergia microsperma
74. California Barley
Hordeum californicum
75. Wright Threeawn
Aristida wrightii
76. Wrinkled Rush
Juncus dubius
77. Wrinkled Rush
Juncus rugulosus
78. Sixweeks Threeawn
Aristida adscensionis
79. Mexican Sprangletop
Diplachne fusca subsp. uninervia
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