Grasses/Rushes/Sedges

Clump-forming. Slow to establish and spread. Makes beautiful mounds of fine-textured leaves with fragrant seed heads.

Large warm-season prairie grass with interesting seedheads. Can help keep taller prairie perianal upright, but is aggressive, especially in smaller areas.

Creates a lovely pink mist when planted in bunches or swaths through a landscape. A great addition to a large grass garden or used as a groundcover.

Warm season bunch grass. Beautiful purple spikelets that make a statement when massed, especially among other green grasses and when blowing in the wind. Tolerates road salt.

Beautiful fall seed heads are prolific reseeders. Plant in masses that are bordered to keep under control.

This sedge can take a wide range of conditions. Good for a rain garden or ground cover. Short, mounding, with thin blades, and spiky oval seed heads with a golden brown fall color.

Sedges have edges – feel the triangular stems. These short, grass-like plants add texture to the garden and create a nice ground cover. Birds eat the seeds.

Clump-forming, shorter grass, with an interesting seed head and autumn color. Food source or larval host for at least five types of skippers. May be used as a turf grass alternative.

A warm season, clumping grass with beautiful fluffy, white seedheads in late summer and fall. Reseeds in disturbed soils and tolerates dry, harsh conditions.

Nice, up-right, green texture for your garden. Can withstand growing in standing water; try in your rain garden or water garden.

With purplish leaves and silvery seed heads, this ornamental grass is a great alternative to the non-native ornamental grasses. This warm-season grass could do well in a dry area of your garden, and can tolerate some shade.

A cute little sedge for your shady garden. Forms clumps 8"-24" wide. The seedheads typically arch over versus stand upright. Prefers some shade and doesn't like to dry out.

Provides winter food and cover for wildlife if not cut back until spring.

A cool-season grass for a shady or sunny, moist area.

A nicely mounded, wispy textured sedge. Can be used in your rain garden or in the basin of your bioswale. Spreads by seeds.