Common Grasses
- Grasses:
- Purple three-awn (Aristida purpurea)
- Blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis)
- California fescue (Festuca californica)
- Idaho fescue (Festuca idahoensis)
- Red fescue (Festuca rubra)
- Junegrass (Koeleria macrantha)
- Giant wildrye (Leymus condensatus)
- California melic (Melica californica)
- Deer grass (Muhlenbergia rigens)
- Purple needlegrass (Nassella pulchra): The state grass of California.
- Indian ricegrass (Oryzopsis hymenoides)
- Pine bluegrass (Poa secunda)
- Grasslike:
- Sedges — (Carex spp.) (taller 'bunch grass' specimens and lower meadow spreaders)
- Rushes — (Juncus spp.)
- Western Blue-eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium bellum) and Yellow-eyed-grass (Sisyrinchium californicum).
Read more about this topic: List Of California Native Plants
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