This list shows 85 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. Hardstem Bulrush
Schoenoplectus acutus
15. Panicled Bulrush
Scirpus microcarpus
16. Baltic Rush
Juncus balticus
17. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
18. Rough Bentgrass
Agrostis scabra
19. Nodding Needlegrass
Nassella cernua
20. Bush Muhly
Muhlenbergia porteri
21. Bushy Bluestem
Andropogon glomeratus
22. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
23. Torrey’s Rush
Juncus torreyi
24. Needle And Thread
Stipa comata
25. California Melicgrass
Melica californica
26. Purple Needlegrass
Nassella pulchra
27. Foothill Needlegrass
Nassella lepida
28. Sand Spikerush
Eleocharis montevidensis
29. Chairmaker’s Bulrush
Schoenoplectus americanus
30. Foxtail Barley
Hordeum jubatum
31. Meadow Barley
Hordeum brachyantherum
32. Golden Sedge
Carex aurea
33. Witchgrass
Panicum capillare
34. Tapered Rosette Grass
Panicum acuminatum
35. Sixweeks Fescue
Vulpia octoflora
36. Mesa Dropseed
Sporobolus flexuosus
37. Squirreltail
Elymus elymoides
38. Scratchgrass
Muhlenbergia asperifolia
39. Big Squirreltail
Elymus multisetus
40. Big Galleta
Hilaria rigida
41. Needle Spikerush
Eleocharis acicularis
42. Common Threesquare
Schoenoplectus pungens
43. Woolly Sedge
Carex pellita
44. Muttongrass
Poa fendleriana
45. Rusty Slender Sedge
Carex subfusca
46. Small Fescue
Festuca microstachys
47. Alpine Fescue
Festuca brachyphylla
48. Red-Rooted Flatsedge
Cyperus erythrorhizos
49. Beaked Spikerush
Eleocharis rostellata
50. California Satintail
Imperata brevifolia
51. Spike Dropseed
Sporobolus contractus
52. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
53. Annual Hairgrass
Deschampsia danthonioides
54. Western Sedge
Carex occidentalis
55. Douglas’ Sedge
Carex douglasii
56. Santa Barbara Sedge
Carex barbarae
57. Pale Spikerush
Eleocharis macrostachya
58. Tall Flatsedge
Cyperus eragrostis
59. Toad Rush
Juncus bufonius
60. Alaska Brome
Bromus sitchensis
61. Spike Bentgrass
Agrostis exarata
62. Prairie Wedgescale
Sphenopholis obtusata
63. California Bulrush
Schoenoplectus californicus
64. Pointed Rush
Juncus oxymeris
65. Swamp Sedge
Carex senta
66. Fragrant Flatsedge
Cyperus odoratus
67. Desert Needlegrass
Stipa speciosa
68. Longstyle Rush
Juncus longistylis
69. Indian Ricegrass
Eriocoma hymenoides
70. Mexican Rush
Juncus mexicanus
71. Bearded Sprangletop
Diplachne fusca subsp. fascicularis
72. Nuttall’s Alkaligrass
Puccinellia nuttalliana
73. Crested Needlegrass
Eriocoma coronata
74. Gray Sedge
Graphephorum canescens
75. Nealley’s Three-awn
Aristida glauca
76. Tapertip Flatsedge
Cyperus acuminatus
77. Littleseed Muhly
Muhlenbergia microsperma
78. Wright Threeawn
Aristida wrightii
79. Wrinkled Rush
Juncus dubius
80. Dwarf Barley
Hordeum depressum
81. Wrinkled Rush
Juncus rugulosus
82. Mertens’ Rush
Juncus mertensianus
83. Sixweeks Threeawn
Aristida adscensionis
84. Mexican Sprangletop
Diplachne fusca subsp. uninervia
85. Schott’s Sedge
Carex schottii
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