Poaceae     (Grass family)  
Annual or perennial herbs, or woody in a few genera; stems terete, internodes hollow or solid; leaves alternate, 2-ranked, simple, and parallel-veined, with sheathing bases, the sheaths usually open, typically with a ligule at junction of sheath and blade; flowers (florets) bisexual or unisexual, subtended by bracts (a lemma and usually a palea), in spikelets usually subtended by a pair of bracts (glumes); fruit a caryopsis.

74 members in the Family




American Beak Grass

Annual Bluegrass

Barnyardgrass

Beaked Panicum

Bermuda Grass

Big Bluestem

Bosc's Panicgrass

Bottlebrush Grass

Broomsedge Bluestem

Canada Wild Rye

Chinese Fountaingrass

Chinese silvergrass

Common Velvet Grass

Creeping Bentgrass

Deertongue

Early Wildrye

Fall Panicgrass

Field Beadgrass

Florida Paspalum

Fowl Manna Grass

Giant Cane

Giant Foxtail

Goosegrass

Grease Grass

Hairy Brome

Hairy Crabgrass

Hairyseed Paspalum

Indiangrass

Inland Sea Oats

Italian Rye Grass

Japanese Brome

Japanese Stiltgrass

Johnsongrass

Kentucky Bluegrass

Lemongrass

Little Bluestem

Meadow Fescue

Meadow Foxtail

Nimblewill

Nodding Fescue

Orchard Grass

Prairie Cordgrass

Prairie Dropseed

Purple Love Grass

Quackgrass

Redtop

Reed Canary Grass

Rice Cutgrass

Riverbank Wildrye

Rough Barnyardgrass

Rough Bluegrass

Sideoats Grama

Silky Wild Rye

Slender Muhly

Small Carpetgrass

Smooth Brome

Smooth Crabgrass

Sorghum

Sweet Vernal Grass

Switchgrass

Tall Fescue

Timothy

Upland Bentgrass

Variegated Ribbon Grass

Virginia Brome

Virginia Wild Rye

Whitegrass

Witchgrass

Wood Reedgrass

Woodland Bluegrass

Woodland Grass

Woolly Panic Grass

Yellow Foxtail

Zebra Grass