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| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Agrostis exarata | Spike bentgrass Spiked bent Spike red top | |
| Agrostis hyemalis | Winter bentgrass | |
| Agrostis perennans | Autumn bentgrass Upland bentgrass | |
| Andropogon gerardii | Big bluestem Turkeyfoot | |
| Andropogon ternarius | Splitbeard bluestem | |
| Andropogon virginicus | Broomsedge bluestem Broom-sedge | |
| Arundinaria gigantea | Giant cane | |
| Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats grama | |
| Bouteloua hirsuta | Hairy grama | |
| Bromus ciliatus | Fringed brome | |
| Carex albolutescens | Greenwhite sedge | |
| Carex amphibola | Creek Sedge Eastern narrowleaf sedge | |
| Carex atlantica | Prickly bog sedge | |
| Carex atlantica ssp. capillacea | Prickly bog sedge | |
| Carex aurea | Golden sedge | |
| Carex blanda | Eastern woodland sedge Creek sedge Common wood sedge | |
| Carex cherokeensis | Cherokee sedge | |
| Carex comosa | Longhair sedge | |
| Carex crinita | Fringed sedge | |
| Carex debilis | White edge sedge | |
| Carex eburnea | Bristleleaf sedge | |
| Carex frankii | Frank's sedge | |
| Carex glaucodea | Blue sedge Blue wood sedge | |
| Carex granularis | Limestone meadow sedge | |
| Carex hystericina | Bottlebrush sedge | |
| Carex intumescens | Greater bladder sedge | |
| Carex leptalea | Bristlystalked sedge | |
| Carex lupulina | Hop sedge | |
| Carex lurida | Lurid sedge Sallow sedge Shallow sedge | |
| Carex planostachys | Cedar sedge | |
| Carex texensis | Texas sedge | |
| Carex tribuloides | Blunt broom sedge | |
| Chloris cucullata | Hooded windmill grass Hooded windmillgrass | |
| Chasmanthium latifolium | Inland sea oats Indian wood oats Wild oats River oats Flathead oats Upland Oats Upland Sea Oats | |
| Chloris verticillata | Tumble windmill grass Windmillgrass | |
| Cinna arundinacea | Sweet woodreed Common woodreed | |
| Cladium mariscus ssp. jamaicense | Jamaica swamp sawgrass Jamaican Saw-grass Saw-grass | |
| Coelorachis cylindrica | Cylinder jointtail grass Carolina Joint-tail | |
| Cyperus articulatus | Jointed flatsedge Chintul | |
| Cyperus esculentus | Yellow nutsedge Chufa Sedge Yellow nut-grass | |
| Cyperus ochraceus | Pond flatsedge Yellow Sedge | |
| Danthonia spicata | Poverty oatgrass Poverty wild oat grass | |
| Dichanthelium acuminatum var. fasciculatum | Rosette grass Western panicgrass | |
| Dichanthelium acuminatum var. lindheimeri | Lindheimer Panicgrass Lindheimer's Rosettegrass | |
| Digitaria californica | Arizona cottontop California cottontop California crab grass Cottontop | |
| Dichanthelium commutatum | Variable panicgrass | |
| Digitaria cognata | Carolina crabgrass Fall witchgrass | |
| Dichanthelium depauperatum | Starved panicgrass | |
| Dichanthelium ovale | Eggleaf rosette grass | |
| Dulichium arundinaceum | Threeway sedge Three-sided sedge | |
| Elymus canadensis | Canada wild rye Canadian wildrye Prairie wildrye Nodding wildrye | |
| Elymus glaucus | Blue wild rye Blue wildrye | |
| Eleocharis palustris | Common spikerush Common spike-rush Creeping spikesedge | |
| Eleocharis rostellata | Beaked spikerush Leap Frog Spike Rush | |
| Elymus virginicus | Virginia wildrye Virginia wild rye | |
| Eragrostis intermedia | Plains lovegrass Plains Lovegrass | |
| Eragrostis palmeri | Rio Grande lovegrass | |
| Eragrostis trichodes | Sand love grass Sand lovegrass | |
| Festuca subverticillata | Nodding fescue | |
| Glyceria striata | Fowl mannagrass | |
| Juncus acuminatus | Tapertip rush | |
| Juncus marginatus | Grassleaf rush Grass Leaf Rush | |
| Juncus tenuis | Poverty rush Path rush | |
| Juncus validus | Roundhead rush | |
| Leptochloa dubia | Green sprangletop | |
| Leersia oryzoides | Rice cut grass Rice cutgrass | |
| Leymus triticoides | Beardless lyme grass Beardless wildrye Creeping wildrye | |
| Leersia virginica | Whitegrass | |
| Melica nitens | Three-flower melic Tall melicgrass Threeflower melicgrass Melicgrass | |
| Muhlenbergia emersleyi | Bullgrass Bull muhly | |
| Muhlenbergia frondosa | Wirestem muhly | |
| Muhlenbergia montana | Mountain muhly | |
| Muhlenbergia racemosa | Marsh muhly | |
| Muhlenbergia schreberi | Nimblewill | |
| Muhlenbergia sylvatica | Woodland muhly | |
| Nassella tenuissima | Mexican Feathergrass Mexican Wiregrass Finestem needlegrass Ponytail grass Texas tussock | |
| Nolina texana | Texas sacahuista Texas beargrass Basket grass Sacahuista Bunchgrass | |
| Pappophorum bicolor | Pink pappasgrass Pink pappusgrass | |
| Paspalum floridanum | Florida paspalum | |
| Panicum obtusum | Vine mesquite | |
| Paspalum plicatulum | Brownseed paspalum Brownseed paspale | |
| Pascopyrum smithii | Western wheatgrass | |
| Panicum virgatum | Switchgrass Wand panic grass | |
| Poa arachnifera | Texas bluegrass Texas blue grass | |
| Rhynchospora colorata | Starrush whitetop Star sedge White-topped sedge Whitetop sedge | |
| Rhynchospora latifolia | Sandswamp whitetop Sand-swamp whitetop Whitetop sedge | |
| Scirpus georgianus | Georgia bulrush | |
| Schizachyrium scoparium | Little bluestem | |
| Setaria parviflora | Marsh bristlegrass Knotroot bristlegrass | |
| Setaria scheelei | Southwestern bristlegrass Scheele's bristlegrass Foxtail grass Scheele's foxtail grass | |
| Setaria texana | Texas bristlegrass | |
| Setaria vulpiseta | Plains bristlegrass | |
| Sorghastrum nutans | Indiangrass Yellow indian grass | |
| Sporobolus airoides | Alkali sacaton | |
| Sporobolus cryptandrus | Sand dropseed | |
| Tridens albescens | White tridens White Top | |
| Trichloris crinita | Two-flowered trichloris False Rhodes grass | |
| Tripsacum dactyloides | Eastern gamagrass | |
| Tridens flavus | Purpletop tridens Redtop tridens Tall redtop tridens Purpletop Redtop Tall redtop | |
| Tridens muticus var. elongatus | Slim tridens | |
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