Tennessee Smart Yards Native Plants
A comprehensive database of Tennessee native plants
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 | Andropogon gerardii | Big Bluestem, Turkey-foot |
 | Andropogon glomeratus | Bushy Bluestem, Bushy Beardgrass |
 | Andropogon ternarius | Splitbeard Bluestem |
 | Andropogon virginicus | Broomsedge Bluestem, Broom-sedge |
 | Arundinaria gigantean | River Cane, Giant Cane |
 | Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats Grama |
 | Bromus ciliates | Fringed Brome |
 | Bromus pubescens (Bromus purgans) | Hairy Woodland Brome |
 | Calamagrostis canadensis | Blue Joint Grass, Bluejoint |
 | Carex albicans | White Tinged Sedge, Oak Sedge, Whitetinge Sedge |
 | Carex albursina | White Bear Sedge |
 | Carex amphibola | Gray Sedge, Creek Sedge |
 | Carex appalachica | Appalachian Sedge |
 | Carex blanda | Common Wood Sedge, Eastern Woodland Sedge |
 | Carex brachyglossa | Small Yellow Fox Sedge, Yellowfruit Sedge |
 | Carex brevior | Shortbeak Sedge, Plains Oval Sedge, Short-Beaked Sedge |
 | Carex buxbaumii | Buxbaum’s Sedge, Brown Bag Sedge |
 | Carex cephalophora | Oval-leaf Sedge, Short-headed Bracted Sedge, Capitate Sedge |
 | Carex cherokeensis | Cherokee Sedge |
 | Carex comosa | Bristly Sedge, Longhair Sedge |
 | Carex conjuncta | Soft Fox Sedge |
 | Carex crinita | Drooping Sedge, Fringed Sedge |
 | Carex cristatella | Crested Oval Sedge, Crested Sedge |
 | Carex crus-corvi | Crowfoot Fox Sedge, Ravenfoot Sedge |
 | Carex davisii | Awned Graceful Sedge, Davis’ Sedge |
 | Carex eburnea | Ivory Sedge, Bristleleaf Sedge, Bristly Cattail Sedge |
 | Carex flaccosperma | Blue Wood Sedge, Meadow Sedge, Thinfruit Sedge |
 | Carex frankii | Frank’s Sedge |
 | Carex gracilescens | Slender Looseflower Sedge, Slender Wood Sedge |
 | Carex gracillima | Purple-sheathed Graceful Sedge, Graceful Sedge |
 | Carex granularis | Limestone Meadow Sedge, Pale Sedge |
 | Carex gravida | Long-awned Bracted Sedge, Heavy Sedge |
 | Carex grayi | Gray’s Sedge, Common Bur Sedge, Morning Star Sedge |
 | Carex grisea | Inflated Narrow-leaf Sedge, Eastern Narrowleaf Sedge, Wood Gray Sedge |
 | Carex hirsutella | Hairy Green Sedge, Fuzzy Wuzzy Sedge |
 | Carex hystericina | Porcupine Sedge, Bottlebrush Sedge |
 | Carex interior | Prairie Star Sedge, Inland Sedge |
 | Carex intumescens | Great Bladder Sedge, Shining Bur Sedge |
 | Carex jamesii | James’s Sedge |
 | Carex lacustris | Hairy Sedge, Lakebank Sedge, Common Lake Sedge |
 | Carex leptalea | Slender Sedge, Bristlystalked Sedge |
 | Carex lupulina | Hop Sedge |
 | Carex lurida | Sallow Sedge |
 | Carex molesta | Field Oval Sedge, Troublesome Sedge |
 | Carex muehlenbergii | Sand Sedge, Sand Bracted Sedge |
 | Carex muskingumensis | Palm Sedge, Muskingum Sedge |
 | Carex normalis | Greater Straw Sedge, Spreading Oval Sedge |
 | Carex pensylvanica | Pennsylvania Sedge, High Meadow Sedge, Common Oak Sedge |
 | Carex picta | Painted Sedge, Boott’s Sedge |
 | Carex plantaginea | Seersucker Sedge, Plantain-leaved Sedge |
 | Carex radiata | Eastern Star Sedge, Straight-styled Wood Sedge |
 | Carex rosea | Curley-styled Wood Sedge, Rosy Sedge |
 | Carex scoparia | Lance-fruited Oval Sedge, Broom Sedge |
 | Carex shortiana | Short’s Sedge |
 | Carex sparganiodes | Bur-reed Sedge |
 | Carex squarrosa | Narrow-leaved Cattail Sedge, Squarrosa Sedge |
 | Carex sterilis | Fen Star Sedge, Dioecious Sedge, Sterile Sedge |
 | Carex stipata | Owlfruit Sedge, Awlfruit Sedge, Prickly Sedge, Common Fox Sedge |
 | Carex stricta | Tussock Sedge, Upright Sedge |
 | Carex texensis | Texas Sedge, Catlin Sedge |
 | Carex tribuloides | Awl-fruited Oval Sedge, Blunt Broom Sedge |
 | Carex typhina | Cattail Sedge |
 | Carex utriculata | Common Yellow Lake Sedge, Northwest Territory Sedge |
 | Carex vulpinoidea | Fox Sedge, Brown Fox Sedge |
 | Chasmanthium latifolium | Upland Sea Oats, River Oats, Indian Woodoats |
 | Deschampsia flexuosa | Wavy Hairgrass |
 | Diarrhena americana | American Beakgrain, Beak Grass |
 | Elymus canadensis | Canada Wild Rye, Prairie Wild Rye, Nodding Wild Rye |
 | Elymus hystrix (Hystrix patula) | Bottlebrush Grass |
 | Elymus villosus | Silky Wild Rye, Hairy Wild Rye |
 | Elymus virginicus | Virginia Wild Rye |
 | Eragrostis spectabilis | Purple Love Grass |
 | Eragrostis trichodes | Sand Lovegrass, Sand Love Grass |
 | Festuca paradoxa | Clustered Fescue |
 | Glyceria grandis | Reed Manna Grass, American Manna Grass |
 | Glyceria striata | Fowl Mannagrass, Fowl Manna Grass |
 | Hordeum jubatum | Squirrel-tail Grass, Foxtail Barley |
 | Juncus dudleyi | Dudley’s Rush |
 | Juncus effuses | Common Rush, Soft Rush |
 | Juncus interior | Inland Rush, Interior Rush |
 | Juncus tenuis | Path Rush, Poverty Rush |
 | Leersia oryzoides | Rice Cut Grass, Rice Cutgrass |
 | Luzula echinata | Wood Rush, Hedgehog Woodrush |
 | Muhlenbergia capillaris | Pink Muhly, Pink Hair Grass |
 | Panicum virgatum | Switch Grass |
 | Pascopyrum smithii (Agropyron smithii) | Western Wheat Grass |
 | Saccharum alopecuroides (Erianthus alopecuroides) | Silver Plumegrass, Fairy Wands |
 | Saccharum brevibarbe var. contortum (Erianthus contortus) | Bent-awn Plumegrass, Sortbeard Plumegrass |
 | Saccharum giganteum (Erianthus giganteum) | Sugarcane Plume Grass |
 | Schizachyrium scoparium (Andropogon scoparius) | Little Bluestem |
 | Schoenoplectus fluviatilis (Scirpus fluviatilis) | River Bulrush |
 | Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani (Scirpus validus) | Softstem Bulrush, Great Bulrush |
 | Scirpus atrovirens | Dark Green Bulrush, Black Bullrush |
 | Scirpus cyperinus | Wool Grass, Cotton Grass |
 | Scirpus pendulus | Rufous Bulrush |
 | Sorghastrum nutans | Indian Grass |
 | Spartina pectinata | Cord Grass, Slough Grass, Ripgut |
 | Sporobolus clandestinus (Sporobolus asper) | Rough Dropseed |
 | Sporobolus cryptandrus | Sand Dropseed |
 | Sporobolus heterolepis | Prairie Dropseed |
 | Tridens flavus | Purpletop, Purpletop Tridens |
 | Tripsacum dactyloides | Eastern Gama Grass |
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