This list shows 84 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. Awl-Fruited Sedge
Carex stipata
8. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
9. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
10. California Oatgrass
Danthonia californica
11. California Brome
Bromus carinatus
12. Western Fescue
Festuca occidentalis
13. Common Rush
Juncus effusus
14. Slender Rush
Juncus tenuis
15. Common Spike-Rush
Eleocharis palustris
16. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
17. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
18. Hardstem Bulrush
Schoenoplectus acutus
19. Rice Cutgrass
Leersia oryzoides
20. Panicled Bulrush
Scirpus microcarpus
21. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
22. Reed Canary Grass
Phalaris arundinacea
23. Splitawn Sedge
Carex tumulicola
24. Bushy Bluestem
Andropogon glomeratus
25. Fowl Mannagrass
Glyceria striata
26. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
27. California Melicgrass
Melica californica
28. Purple Needlegrass
Nassella pulchra
29. Slender Hairgrass
Deschampsia elongata
30. Foothill Needlegrass
Nassella lepida
31. Slough Sedge
Carex obnupta
32. Chairmaker’s Bulrush
Schoenoplectus americanus
33. Meadow Barley
Hordeum brachyantherum
34. Witchgrass
Panicum capillare
35. Tapered Rosette Grass
Panicum acuminatum
36. Sierra Rush
Juncus nevadensis
37. American Sloughgrass
Beckmannia syzigachne
38. Torrey’s Melicgrass
Melica torreyana
39. Big Squirreltail
Elymus multisetus
40. Needle Spikerush
Eleocharis acicularis
41. Common Threesquare
Schoenoplectus pungens
42. River Bulrush
Bolboschoenus fluviatilis
43. Chamisso Sedge
Carex pachystachya
44. Seacoast Bulrush
Bolboschoenus robustus
45. Buxbaum’s Sedge
Carex buxbaumii
46. Teal Lovegrass
Eragrostis hypnoides
47. Western Rush
Juncus occidentalis
48. Red-Rooted Flatsedge
Cyperus erythrorhizos
49. Beaked Spikerush
Eleocharis rostellata
50. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
51. Annual Hairgrass
Deschampsia danthonioides
52. Santa Barbara Sedge
Carex barbarae
53. Dense Sedge
Carex densa
54. Pale Spikerush
Eleocharis macrostachya
55. Seaside Arrowgrass
Triglochin maritima
56. Tall Flatsedge
Cyperus eragrostis
57. Broad-Glumed Wheatgrass
Elymus violaceus
58. Toad Rush
Juncus bufonius
59. Bigleaf Sedge
Carex amplifolia
60. Mountain Brome
Bromus marginatus
61. Spike Bentgrass
Agrostis exarata
62. Torrent Sedge
Carex nudata
63. Roundfruit Sedge
Carex globosa
64. Pacific Rush
Juncus effusus subsp. pacificus
65. California Bulrush
Schoenoplectus californicus
66. Pointed Rush
Juncus oxymeris
67. Brown-Headed Rush
Juncus phaeocephalus
68. Slender-Footed Sedge
Carex leptopoda
69. Northwestern Mannagrass
Glyceria occidentalis
70. Bolander’s Rush
Juncus bolanderi
71. Pacific Woodrush
Luzula comosa
72. Alaska Oniongrass
Melica subulata
73. Chinook Brome
Bromus laevipes
74. Green Fescue
Festuca viridula
75. Small-Leaf Bentgrass
Agrostis microphylla
76. Bearded Sprangletop
Diplachne fusca subsp. fascicularis
77. Carolina Foxtail
Alopecurus carolinianus
78. Gray Sedge
Graphephorum canescens
79. Tapertip Flatsedge
Cyperus acuminatus
80. Smallbract Sedge
Carex subbracteata
81. California Barley
Hordeum californicum
82. Wrinkled Rush
Juncus dubius
83. Columbia Brome
Bromus vulgaris
84. Mexican Sprangletop
Diplachne fusca subsp. uninervia
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