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Native Alternatives to Grass Species

Little Bluestem

Indian grass
Big bluestem (left) and Indian grass (above) can act as good native plants to use as alternatives to harmful invasive grass species.
Photos © TNC

INVASIVE SPECIES

NATIVE ALTERNATIVES

Agropyron repens (quack-grass)

Dry Habitats:

Bromus inermis (smooth brome)

Bouteloua curtipendula (side oats)

Festuca arundinacea - Kentucky 31

Chasmanthium latifolium (wild oats)

     (meadow fescue)

Eragrostis spectablis (purple lovegrass)

Festuca pratensis (meadow fescue)

Panicum virgatum (switchgrass)

Microstegium vimineum (Nepalgrass)

Schizachyrium scoparium (little bluestem)      

Miscanthus sinensis (Chinese silvergrass)

Sorghastrum nutans (Indian grass)

Phalaris arundinacea
     (reed canary grass) ***

Mesic to Wet Habitats:

Phragmites australis

Andropogon gerardii (big bluestem)

     (common reed grass) ***

Calamagrostis canadensis (reed-grass)

Sorghum halepense (Johnson grass)

Elymus canadensis (Canada rye)

Elymus hystrix (bottlebrush-grass)

Elymus virginicus (Virginia rye)

Panicum virgatum (switchgrass)

Sorghastrum nutans (Indian grass)

Spartina pectinata (prairie cord grass)

Tripsacum dactyloides (gama grass)

*** these species may have native and non-native strains in Ohio