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Grass Plant Guides
In the Garden Guides' plant guides for grasses section you will find informative pages about individual grasses. Each page includes information on various uses of the grass, a detailed description of the grass, information on how the grass is adapted to different climates, how to grow the grass, and how to manage and upkeep the grass. To explore our grass plant guides select a type of grass from the options below.
Grass Plant Guides
- Alkali Sacaton - Sporobolus airoides
- American Beachgrass - Ammophila breviligulata
- American Bur-Reed - Sparganium americanum
- Beaked Panicgrass - Panicum anceps
- Beardless Wheatgrass - Pseudoroegneria spicata ssp. inermis
- Beardless Wildrye - Leymus triticoides
- Big Bluestem - Andropogon gerardii
- Big Squirreltail - Elymus multisetus
- Bitter Panicgrass - Panicum amarum
- Blue Wildrye - Elymus glaucus
- Bluebunch Wheatgrass - Pseudoroegneria spicata
- Branched Bur-Reed - Sparganium androcladum
- Broadleaf Arrowhead - Sagittaria latifolia
- Broadleaf Cattail - Typha latifolia
- Broomsedge Bluestem - Andropogon virginicus
- Bulbous Canarygrass - Phalaris aquatica
- Bushy Bluestem - Andropogon glomeratus
- Cheatgrass - Bromus tectorum
- Clustered Bur-Reed - Sparganium glomeratum
- Cosmopolitan Bulrush - Schoenoplectus maritimus
- Creeping Meadow Foxtail - Alopecurus arundinaceus
- Crested Wheatgrass - Agropyron cristatum
- Desert Wheatgrass - Agropyron desertorum
- Elliott's Bluestem - Andropogon gyrans var. gyrans
- Fall Panicgrass - Panicum dichotomiflorum
- Floating Bur-Reed - Sparganium fluctuans
- Fox Sedge - Carex vulpinoidea
- Great Lakes Wheatgrass - Elymus lanceolatus ssp. psammophilus
- Green Needlegrass - Nassella viridula
- Idaho Fescue - Festuca idahoensis
- Indian Ricegrass - Achnatherum hymenoides
- Indian Woodoats - Chasmanthium latifolium
- Kentucky Bluegrass - Poa pratensis
- Knotgrass - Paspalum distichum
- Meadow Brome - Bromus biebersteinii
- Mountain Brome - Bromus marginatus
- Narrowleaf Bur-Reed - Sparganium angustifolium
- Narrowleaf Cattail - Typha angustifolia
- Northern Bur-Reed - Sparganium hyperboreum
- Northern Sweetgrass - Hierochloe hirta ssp. arctica
- Nutgrass - Cyperus rotundus
- Prairie Cordgrass - Spartina pectinata
- Rat-Tail Fescue - Vulpia myuros
- Reed Canarygrass - Phalaris arundinacea
- Russian Wildrye - Psathyrostachys juncea
- Sacahuista - Nolina microcarpa
- Saltgrass - Distichlis spicata
- Sand Bluestem - Andropogon hallii
- Santa Barbara Sedge - Carex barbarae
- Seashore Paspalum - Paspalum vaginatum
- Siberian Wheatgrass - Agropyron fragile
- Simplestem Bur-Reed - Sparganium erectum
- Slender Wheatgrass - Elymus trachycaulus
- Slough Sedge - Carex obnupta
- Small Bur-Reed - Sparganium natans
- Softstem Bulrush - Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani
- Southern Cattail - Typha domingensis
- Splitbeard Bluestem - Andropogon ternarius
- Squirreltail - Elymus elymoides
- Sturdy Bulrush - Schoenoplectus robustus
- Sweetgrass - Hierochloe odorata
- Texas Cupgrass - Eriochloa sericea
- Thickspike Wheatgrass - Elymus lanceolatus
- Torpedo Grass - Panicum repens
- Western Needlegrass - Achnatherum occidentale
- Western Wheatgrass - Pascopyrum smithii
- Woolgrass - Scirpus cyperinus


