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Grasses, Sedges and Rushes (129 species)

Updated August 2006

• Agrostis hymenalis var scabra - Tickle Grass

  Bluestem © TNC file photo

  Indian Grass © TNC file photo

  Common sedge © TNC file photo

• Andropogon gerardii - Big Bluestem
• Andropogon virginica - Broom Sedge
• Aristida longispica var. longispica - Slimspike Three-awn
• *Aristida purpurascens - Purple Triple-awned Grass
• Bromus ciliatus - Fringed Brome
• Bromus kalmii - Prairie Brome
• Bulbostylis capillaris - Thread-leaved Sedge
• Calamagrostis canadensis - Blue-joint Grass
• Calamagrostis inexpansa - Northern Reed Grass
• *Carex alata - Broad-winged Sedge
• Carex albicans var. emmonsii - Emmon’s Sedge
• Carex annectens - Yellow Fox Sedge
• *Carex atherodes - Wheat Sedge
• *Carex aurea - Golden-fruited Sedge
• *Carex bebbii - Bebb’s Sedge
• *Carex bicknellii - Bicknell’s Sedge
• Carex blanda - Common Wood Sedge
• *Carex brevior - Tufted Fescue Sedge
• Carex buxbaumii - Brown Bog Sedge
• Carex cephalaphora - Oval-headed Sedge
• Carex crinata
• *Carex conoidea - Field Sedge
• Carex cristatella - Crested Sedge
• *Carex cryptolepis - Little Yellow Sedge
• Carex festucacea - Fescue Sedge
• *Carex garberi - Garber’s Sedge
• Carex gracillima - Gracefull Sedge
• Carex granularis - Meadow Sedge
• Carex interior - Inland Sedge
• Carex lacustris - Common Lake Sedge
• *Carex lasiocarpa - Slender Sedge
• *Carex lucorum - Fire Sedge
• Carex lupulina - Hop Sedge
• *Carex merrit-fernaldii - Fernald’s Sedge
• Carex molesta - Troublesome Sedge
• Carex muhlenbergii - Muhlenberg’s Sedge
• Carex pellita (lanuginosa) - Wooly Sedge
• Carex pensylvanica - Pennsylvania Sedge
• Carex radiata - Radiate Sedge
• Carex rosea - Stellate Sedge
• Carex rugosperma - Low Sand Sedge
• Carex sartwellii - Sartwell’s Sedge
• Carex scoparia - Pointed Broom Sedge
• *Carex siccata - Hay Sedge
• Carex stipata - Common Fox Sedge
• Carex stricta
• Carex swanii - Swan’s Sedge
• Carex tenera - Bending Sedge
• Carex tetanica - Stiff Sedge
• Carex tuckermanii - Tuckerman’s Sedge
• Carex vesicaria
• Carex vulpinoidea - Foxtail Sedge
• Cenchrus longispinus - Sandbur
• Cinna arunndinacea - Common Woodreed
• Cladium mariscoides - Twig-rush
• Cyperus flavescens - Yellow Umbrella-Sedge
• Cyperus lupulinus - Slender Umbrella-Sedge
• Cyperus strigosus - False Nutsedge
• Danthonia spicata - Poverty Oat Grass
• Eleocharis elliptica - Yellow-seeded Spike-rush
• Eleocharis erythropoda - Red-footed Spike-rush
• Eleocharis obtusa - Blunt Spike-rush
• Eleocharis smallii - Small’s Spikrush
• *Elymus trachycaulis - Slender Wheat Grass
• Elymus virginicus - Virginia Wild Rye
• Elymus villosus - Wild Rye
• Eragrostis spectabilis - Purple LoveGrass
• Festuca octoflora - Six Weeks Fescue
• Festuca subverticillata - Nodding Fescue
• Glyceria striata - Fowl Manna Grass
• Juncus acuminatus - Sharp Fruited Rush
• Juncus anthelatus
• Juncus articulatus
• Juncus biflorus - Two-flowered Rush
• Juncus bracycarpus - Short-fruited Rush
• Juncus bufonius - Toad Rush
• Juncus canadensis - Canada Rush
• Juncus dudleyi - Dudley’s Rush
• Juncus effusus - Common Rush
• *Juncus greenei - Greene’s Rush
• Juncus marginatus - Grass-leaved Rush
• Juncus nodosus - Joint Rush
• Juncus tenuis - Path Rush
• Juncus torreyi - Torrey’s Rush
• *Koeleria macrantha - Junegrass
• Leersia oryzoides - Rice Cutgrass
• Leptoloma cognatum - Fall Witch Grass
• *Lipocarpha drummondii - Drummond’s Dwarf Bulrush
• *Lipocarpha micrantha - Dwarf Bulrush
• Luzula multiflora - Pale Woodrush
• Muhlenbergia glomerata - Marsh-muhly
• Muhlenbergia mexicana - Wirestem-muhly
• Oryzopsis
• *Panicum boreale - Northern Panic Grass
• Panicum clandestinum - Deer’s Tongue Grass
• Panicum columbianum - American Panic Grass
• Panicum depauperatum - Starved Panic Grass
• Panicum dichotomum - Forked Panic Grass
• Panicum flexile - Wiry Panic Grass
• Panicum lanuginosum var. implicatum - Old Field Panic-grass
• Panicum latifolium - Broad-leaved Panic Grass
• *Panicum lindheimeri - Lindheimer’s Panic Grass
• *Panicum meridionale - Southern Hairy Panic Grass
• Panicum oligosanthes - Scribner’s Panic Grass
• *Panicum perlongum - Long-panicled Panic Grass
• *Panicum praecosius - Early Panic Grass
• Panicum rigidulum - Witch Grass
• Panicum sphaerocarpon - Round-fruited Panic Grass
• *Panicum spretum - Narrow-headed Panic Grass
• Panicum virgatum - Switch Grass
• Paspalum setaceum var. ciliatifolium - Hairy Lens Grass
• Poa palustris - Fowl Meadow-grass
• Rhyncospora capitellata - Clustered Beak-rush
• *Rhyncospora globularis - Grass-like Beak-rush
• Schizachyrium scoparium - Little Bluestem
• Scirpus atrovirens - Black Bulrush
• Scirpus cyperinus - Wool-grass
• Scirpus pendulus - Drooping Bulrush
• Scirpus validus - Soft-stem Bulrush
• *Scleria pauciflora - Few-flowered Nut-Rush
• *Scleria triglomerata - Tall Nut-Rush
• Sorghastrum nutans - Indian Grass
• *Sphenopholis obtusata - Prairie Wedge Grass
• Sporobolus asper - Rough Dropseed
• Sporobolus cryptandrus - Sand Dropseed
• Sporobolus vaginiflorus
• *Stipa spartea - Porcupine Grass
• Triodia flava - Grease Grass

* Ohio Rare Species