This list shows 91 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. Spreading Rush
Juncus patens
5. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
6. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
7. Purple Threeawn
Aristida purpurea
8. Sand Dropseed
Sporobolus cryptandrus
9. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
10. California Brome
Bromus carinatus
11. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
12. Common Rush
Juncus effusus
13. Common Spike-Rush
Eleocharis palustris
14. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
15. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
16. Hardstem Bulrush
Schoenoplectus acutus
17. Rice Cutgrass
Leersia oryzoides
18. Panicled Bulrush
Scirpus microcarpus
19. Baltic Rush
Juncus balticus
20. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
21. Rough Bentgrass
Agrostis scabra
22. Nodding Needlegrass
Nassella cernua
23. Bushy Bluestem
Andropogon glomeratus
24. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
25. Torrey’s Rush
Juncus torreyi
26. Sea Clubrush
Bolboschoenus maritimus
27. Needle And Thread
Stipa comata
28. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
29. Purple Needlegrass
Nassella pulchra
30. Foothill Needlegrass
Nassella lepida
31. Sand Spikerush
Eleocharis montevidensis
32. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
33. Chairmaker’s Bulrush
Schoenoplectus americanus
34. Foxtail Barley
Hordeum jubatum
35. Meadow Barley
Hordeum brachyantherum
36. Golden Sedge
Carex aurea
37. Witchgrass
Panicum capillare
38. Tapered Rosette Grass
Panicum acuminatum
39. Sixweeks Fescue
Vulpia octoflora
40. Squirreltail
Elymus elymoides
41. Scratchgrass
Muhlenbergia asperifolia
42. Big Squirreltail
Elymus multisetus
43. Needle Spikerush
Eleocharis acicularis
44. Common Threesquare
Schoenoplectus pungens
45. Woolly Sedge
Carex pellita
46. Seacoast Bulrush
Bolboschoenus robustus
47. Bearded Sprangletop
Diplachne fusca
48. Muttongrass
Poa fendleriana
49. Small Fescue
Festuca microstachys
50. Alpine Fescue
Festuca brachyphylla
51. Red-Rooted Flatsedge
Cyperus erythrorhizos
52. Beaked Spikerush
Eleocharis rostellata
53. California Satintail
Imperata brevifolia
54. Nodding Brome
Bromus anomalus
55. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
56. Annual Hairgrass
Deschampsia danthonioides
57. Fowl Bluegrass
Poa palustris
58. Santa Barbara Sedge
Carex barbarae
59. Pale Spikerush
Eleocharis macrostachya
60. Tall Flatsedge
Cyperus eragrostis
61. Broad-Glumed Wheatgrass
Elymus violaceus
62. Toad Rush
Juncus bufonius
63. Alaska Brome
Bromus sitchensis
64. Spike Bentgrass
Agrostis exarata
65. Prairie Wedgescale
Sphenopholis obtusata
66. California Bulrush
Schoenoplectus californicus
67. Pointed Rush
Juncus oxymeris
68. Brown-Headed Rush
Juncus phaeocephalus
69. Swamp Sedge
Carex senta
70. Fragrant Flatsedge
Cyperus odoratus
71. Desert Needlegrass
Stipa speciosa
72. Smooth Flatsedge
Cyperus laevigatus
73. Shortawn Foxtail
Alopecurus aequalis
74. Chinook Brome
Bromus laevipes
75. Indian Ricegrass
Eriocoma hymenoides
76. Mexican Rush
Juncus mexicanus
77. Bearded Sprangletop
Diplachne fusca subsp. fascicularis
78. Nuttall’s Alkaligrass
Puccinellia nuttalliana
79. Little Barley
Hordeum pusillum
80. Crested Needlegrass
Eriocoma coronata
81. Tapertip Flatsedge
Cyperus acuminatus
82. Littleseed Muhly
Muhlenbergia microsperma
83. California Barley
Hordeum californicum
84. Wright Threeawn
Aristida wrightii
85. Wrinkled Rush
Juncus dubius
86. Dwarf Barley
Hordeum depressum
87. Wrinkled Rush
Juncus rugulosus
88. Sixweeks Threeawn
Aristida adscensionis
89. Mexican Sprangletop
Diplachne fusca subsp. uninervia
90. Schott’s Sedge
Carex schottii
91. Mat Muhly
Muhlenbergia richardsonis
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