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.
- rattlesnake mannagrassGlyceria canadensisZones 3 to 7 · Full sun · 5 ft
- silvery sedgeCarex canescensZones 3 to 6 · Sun to shade · 3 ft
- wheat sedgeCarex ×atherodesZones 3 to 6 · 4 ft
- bur-reed sedgeCarex sparganioidesZones 3 to 7 · Part to full shade
- heavy sedgeCarex gravidaZones 3 to 8 · 3 ft
- mead's sedgeCarex meadiiZones 3 to 8 · 2 ft
- Mexican rushJuncus balticusZones 3 to 8 · 3 ft
- hairy wildryeElymus villosusZones 3 to 8 · 4 ft
- hairy woodland bromeBromus pubescensZones 3 to 9 · 5 ft
- shortbeak sedgeCarex breviorZones 3 to 8 · 4 ft
- MinnblueA little bluestemSchizachyrium scoparium 'MinnblueA'Zones 3 to 9 · Full sun · 2 to 4 ft
- Greater Quaking Grass ornamental grassBriza maxima 'Greater Quaking Grass'Zones 2 to 6 · Full sun · 2 to 1"
- Glaucum little bluestemSchizachyrium scoparium 'Glaucum'Zones 3 to 8 · Full sun · 3 ft
- Honeycomb blue gramaBouteloua gracilis 'Honeycomb'Zones 3 to 10 · Full sun · 3 ft
- Morning Mist prairie dropseedSporobolus heterolepis 'Morning Mist'Zones 3 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 2 to 3 ft
- Blaufuchs blue fescueFestuca glauca 'Blaufuchs'Zones 3 to 9 · Sun to part shade
- Dense Shade Mix tall fescueLolium arundinaceum 'Dense Shade Mix'Zones 3 to 6 · Sun to part shade · 3 to 6"
- Jaguar 3 tall fescueLolium arundinaceum 'Jaguar 3'Zones 3 to 6 · Sun to part shade · 3"
- Straw Hat sedgeCarex pensylvanica 'Straw Hat'Zones 3 to 8 · Sun to shade · 9 to 12"
- Prairie Winds Brush Strokes little bluestemSchizachyrium scoparium 'Prairie Winds Brush Strokes'Zones 3 to 9 · Full sun
- Picta reed canary grassPhalaris arundinacea 'Picta'Zones 3 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 4 ft
- Dewey Blue bitter switchgrassPanicum amarum 'Dewey Blue'Zones 2 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 3 to 4 ft
- Graceful Grasses Curly Wurly lamp rushJuncus effusus 'Graceful Grasses Curly Wurly'Zones 1 to 11 · Full sun
- sedge hopCarex pseudocyperusZones 3 to 6 · Sun to part shade · 2 to 3 ft
- bitter switchgrassPanicum amarumZones 2 to 9 · Full sun · 3 to 4 ft
- hayden's sedgeCarex haydeniiZones 3 to 8 · Sun to shade · 12 to 18"