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| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Allium canadense | Meadow garlic Wild garlic Wild onion | |
| Andropogon gerardii | Big bluestem Turkeyfoot | |
| Andropogon glomeratus | Bushy bluestem Brushy bluestem | |
| Andropogon virginicus | Broomsedge bluestem Broom-sedge | |
| Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats grama | |
| Bromus ciliatus | Fringed brome | |
| Bromus latiglumis | Earlyleaf brome | |
| Carex amphibola | Creek Sedge Eastern narrowleaf sedge | |
| Carex aquatilis | Leafy tussock sedge Water sedge | |
| Carex atlantica ssp. capillacea | Prickly bog sedge | |
| Carex bebbii | Bebb's sedge | |
| Carex blanda | Eastern woodland sedge Creek sedge Common wood sedge | |
| Carex brunnescens | Brownish sedge | |
| Carex buxbaumii | Buxbaum's sedge | |
| Carex canescens | Silvery sedge | |
| Calamagrostis canadensis | Bluejoint | |
| Carex crinita | Fringed sedge | |
| Carex cryptolepis | Northeastern sedge | |
| Carex diandra | Lesser panicled sedge | |
| Carex disperma | Softleaf sedge | |
| Carex eburnea | Bristleleaf sedge | |
| Carex echinata | Star sedge | |
| Carex flava | Yellow sedge | |
| Carex folliculata | Northern long sedge | |
| Carex glaucodea | Blue sedge Blue wood sedge | |
| Carex granularis | Limestone meadow sedge | |
| Carex gynandra | Nodding sedge | |
| Carex haydenii | Hayden's sedge | |
| Carex hystericina | Bottlebrush sedge | |
| Carex interior | Inland sedge | |
| Carex intumescens | Greater bladder sedge | |
| Carex lasiocarpa | Woollyfruit sedge | |
| Carex lacustris | Hairy sedge Lakebank sedge | |
| Carex lasiocarpa var. americana | American woollyfruit sedge | |
| Carex leptalea | Bristlystalked sedge | |
| Carex leptalea ssp. leptalea | Bristlystalked sedge Flaccid sedge | |
| Carex limosa | Mud sedge | |
| Carex oligosperma | Fewseed sedge | |
| Carex pedunculata | Longstalk sedge | |
| Carex plantaginea | Plantainleaf sedge Plantain-leaf sedge | |
| Carex prairea | Prairie sedge | |
| Carex pseudocyperus | Cypress-like sedge Cypresslike sedge | |
| Carex retrorsa | Knotsheath sedge | |
| Carex scoparia | Broom sedge | |
| Carex sterilis | Dioecious sedge | |
| Carex stipata | Owlfruit sedge Stalk-grain sedge Awl-fruited sedge | |
| Carex stricta | Upright sedge Uptight sedge Tussock sedge | |
| Carex tenuiflora | Sparseflower sedge | |
| Carex texensis | Texas sedge | |
| Carex trisperma | Threeseeded sedge | |
| Carex tribuloides | Blunt broom sedge | |
| Carex tuckermanii | Tuckerman's sedge | |
| Carex utriculata | Northwest Territory sedge | |
| Carex vesicaria | Blister sedge | |
| Carex viridula | Little green sedge | |
| Carex vulpinoidea | Fox sedge Brown fox sedge | |
| Chasmanthium latifolium | Inland sea oats Indian wood oats Wild oats River oats Flathead oats Upland Oats Upland Sea Oats | |
| Cyperus esculentus | Yellow nutsedge Chufa Sedge Yellow nut-grass | |
| Dichanthelium acuminatum var. fasciculatum | Rosette grass Western panicgrass | |
| Dichanthelium boreale | Northern panicgrass | |
| Dichanthelium commutatum | Variable panicgrass | |
| Elymus canadensis | Canada wild rye Canadian wildrye Prairie wildrye Nodding wildrye | |
| Elymus hystrix | Eastern bottlebrush grass Bottlebrush Grass | |
| Elymus riparius | Riverbank wild-rye Riverbank wildrye | |
| Elymus virginicus | Virginia wildrye Virginia wild rye | |
| Eragrostis spectabilis | Purple lovegrass Purple love grass Purple plains lovegrass Tumblegrass Petticoat climber | |
| Juncus effusus | Common rush Soft Rush | |
| Juncus interior | Inland rush | |
| Juncus torreyi | Torrey's rush | |
| Melica nitens | Three-flower melic Tall melicgrass Threeflower melicgrass Melicgrass | |
| Muhlenbergia capillaris | Gulf muhly Hair-awn muhly Hairy-awn muhly Hair grass Pink muhly | |
| Muhlenbergia mexicana | Mexican muhly Leafy satingrass Wirestem muhly | |
| Muhlenbergia schreberi | Nimblewill | |
| Paspalum floridanum | Florida paspalum | |
| Pascopyrum smithii | Western wheatgrass | |
| Panicum virgatum | Switchgrass Wand panic grass | |
| Phragmites australis | Common reed Phragmites | |
| Poa pratensis | Kentucky bluegrass | |
| Puccinellia distans | Weeping alkaligrass | |
| Scirpus pendulus | Rufous bulrush | |
| Setaria parviflora | Marsh bristlegrass Knotroot bristlegrass | |
| Sorghastrum nutans | Indiangrass Yellow indian grass | |
| Sporobolus compositus var. compositus | Composite dropseed Tall dropseed | |
| Tripsacum dactyloides | Eastern gamagrass | |
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