Ornamental grasses for zone 3
These 146 ornamental grasses grow in USDA zone 3. Zone 3 winters reach -40 to -30°F (-40 to -34°C). Garden centre favorites come first. Find your zone.
- sedgeCarex cristatellaZones 3 to 7 · Sun to part shade · 1 to 3 ft
- Prairie Winds Blue Paradise little bluestemSchizachyrium scoparium 'Prairie Winds Blue Paradise'Zones 3 to 9 · Full sun
- American mannagrassGlyceria grandisZones 3 to 6 · Full sun · 6 ft
- common spikerushEleocharis palustrisZones 3 to 10 · Part shade · 3 ft
- fringed bromeBromus ciliatusZones 3 to 8 · Sun to shade · 5 ft
- panicled bulrushScirpus microcarpusZones 3 to 9 · Full sun · 5 ft
- riverbank wildryeElymus ripariusZones 3 to 8 · Part to full shade · 5 ft
- bottlebrush sedgeCarex hystericinaZones 3 to 9 · Sun to shade · 3 ft
- green needlegrassNassella viridulaZones 3 to 7 · Full sun · 4 ft
- hard fescueFestuca longifoliaZones 3 to 9 · Full sun · 1 to 2 ft
- hardstem bulrushSchoenoplectus acutusZones 3 to 7 · Full sun · 10 ft
- rice cutgrassLeersia oryzoidesZones 3 to 9 · Part shade · 5 ft
- three-way sedgeDulichium arundinaceumZones 3 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 1 to 3 ft
- torrey's rushJuncus torreyiZones 3 to 9 · Full sun · 3 ft
- blunt spikerushEleocharis obtusaZones 3 to 10 · Full sun · 3 ft
- fowl bluegrassPoa palustrisZones 3 to 10 · Part shade · 4 ft
- graceful sedgeCarex gracillimaZones 3 to 8 · Part shade · 3 ft
- nodding fescueFestuca subverticillataZones 3 to 8 · Part shade · 5 ft
- river bulrushBolboschoenus fluviatilisZones 3 to 8 · Full sun · 6 ft
- slender wheatgrassElymus trachycaulusZones 3 to 9 · Full sun · 5 ft
- sprengel's sedgeCarex sprengeliiZones 3 to 5 · Part to full shade · 3 ft
- star sedgeCarex echinataZones 3 to 9 · Sun to shade · 4 ft
- white bear sedgeCarex albursinaZones 3 to 7 · Sun to part shade · 2 ft
- bebb's sedgeCarex bebbiiZones 3 to 7 · Sun to shade
- creeping bent grassAgrostis stoloniferaZones 3 to 6 · Full sun · 3 to 6"
- American sloughgrassBeckmannia syzigachneZones 3 to 7 · 4 ft
- troublesome sedgeCarex molestaZones 3 to 8 · 2 ft
- Gone With The Wind prairie dropseedSporobolus heterolepis 'Gone With The Wind'Zones 3 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 2 to 4 ft
- Purple Majesty ornamental milletCenchrus violaceus 'Purple Majesty'Zones 2 to 11 · Full sun · 3 to 5 ft
- Brush Strokes little bluestemSchizachyrium scoparium 'Brush Strokes'Zones 3 to 9 · Full sun · 3 ft
- Indian Warrior big bluestemAndropogon gerardi 'Indian Warrior'Zones 3 to 9 · Full sun · 5 to 6 ft
- Prairie Munchkin little bluestemSchizachyrium scoparium 'Prairie Munchkin'Zones 3 to 9 · Full sun · 3 ft
- Sandhill little bluestemSchizachyrium scoparium 'Sandhill'Zones 3 to 9 · Full sun · 4 to 6 ft
- Golden Needles prairie dropseedSporobolus heterolepis 'Golden Needles'Zones 3 to 9 · Sun to part shade
- Pennlawn red fescueFestuca rubra 'Pennlawn'Zones 3 to 6 · Sun to part shade · 3"
- lamp rushJuncus effususZones 3 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 2 to 4 ft
- sideoats grassBouteloua curtipendulaZones 3 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 2 to 3 ft
- northern sweetgrassAnthoxanthum nitensZones 3 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 1 to 3 ft
- tall cottongrassEriophorum angustifoliumZones 3 to 8 · Sun to part shade · 1 to 3 ft
- bristle-leaved sedgeCarex eburneaZones 2 to 8 · Part to full shade · 6 to 12"
- dudley's rushJuncus dudleyiZones 3 to 8 · Full sun · 2 to 3 ft
- greater straw sedgeCarex normalisZones 3 to 8 · Sun to shade · 2 to 3 ft
- awlfruit sedgeCarex stipataZones 3 to 9 · Full sun · 4 ft
- composite dropseedSporobolus compositusZones 3 to 9 · Full sun · 5 ft
- inland rushJuncus interiorZones 3 to 9 · Full sun · 2 ft
- limestone meadow sedgeCarex granularisZones 3 to 9 · Sun to shade · 3 ft
- Mexican muhlyMuhlenbergia mexicanaZones 3 to 8 · Full sun · 3 ft
- arctic bromeBromus kalmiiZones 3 to 6 · Full sun · 2 ft
- blunt broom sedgeCarex tribuloidesZones 3 to 9 · Part shade · 2 ft
- hairy sedgeCarex lacustrisZones 3 to 7 · Sun to shade · 5 ft
- knotted rushJuncus nodosusZones 3 to 8 · Full sun · 2 ft
- marsh muhlyMuhlenbergia racemosaZones 3 to 7 · Part shade · 2 ft
- woolly sedgeCarex pellitaZones 3 to 8 · Full sun · 3 ft
- Canadian rushJuncus canadensisZones 3 to 9 · Part shade
- common threesquareSchoenoplectus pungensZones 2 to 9 · Full sun · 6 ft
- greater bladder sedgeCarex intumescensZones 3 to 9 · Part to full shade · 2 ft
- northwest territory sedgeCarex utriculataZones 3 to 9 · Full sun · 3 ft
- prairie sedgeCarex praireaZones 3 to 7 · 3 ft
- prairie wedgescaleSphenopholis obtusataZones 3 to 10 · Part shade · 4 ft
- quill sedgeCarex teneraZones 3 to 6 · Part shade · 3 ft