Ornamental grasses for zone 4
These 247 ornamental grasses grow in USDA zone 4. Zone 4 winters reach -30 to -20°F (-34 to -29°C). Garden centre favorites come first. Find your zone.
- Cool as Ice red fescueFestuca 'Cool as Ice'Zones 4 to 8 · Sun to part shade · 12 to 18"
- Ha Ha Tonka little bluestemSchizachyrium scoparium 'Ha Ha Tonka'Zones 3 to 8 · Full sun · 3 to 4 ft
- Hachita blue gramaBouteloua gracilis 'Hachita'Zones 3 to 10 · Full sun · 1 to 3 ft
- Little Red Fox little bluestemSchizachyrium scoparium 'Little Red Fox'Zones 3 to 10 · Full sun · 3 ft
- Niagara Falls switchgrassPanicum virgatum 'Niagara Falls'Zones 4 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 4 ft
- Prairie Sky switchgrassPanicum virgatum 'Prairie Sky'Zones 4 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 4 to 6 ft
- Tara prairie dropseedSporobolus heterolepis 'Tara'Zones 3 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 2 to 3 ft
- Black Beauty tall fescueLolium arundinaceum 'Black Beauty'Zones 3 to 6 · Sun to part shade · 3 to 6"
- Holy Smoke big bluestemAndropogon gerardi 'Holy Smoke'Zones 4 to 9 · Full sun · 4 to 6 ft
- blue green sedgeCarex flaccaZones 4 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 6 to 12"
- eastern bottlebrush grassElymus hystrixZones 3 to 8 · Sun to shade · 3 ft
- fringed sedgeCarex crinitaZones 3 to 8 · Sun to shade · 1 to 3 ft
- gray sedgeCarex grayiZones 4 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 2 to 3 ft
- sallow sedgeCarex luridaZones 3 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 2 to 3 ft
- wool grassScirpus cyperinusZones 3 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 3 to 5 ft
- Hänse Herms switchgrassPanicum virgatum 'Hänse Herms'Zones 3 to 9 · Sun to part shade
- alkali sacatonSporobolus airoidesZones 4 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 3 to 4 ft
- bluejointCalamagrostis canadensisZones 3 to 6 · Sun to shade · 3 to 5 ft
- bristly sedgeCarex comosaZones 3 to 10 · Sun to part shade · 2 to 3 ft
- california gray rushJuncus patensZones 4 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 1 to 2 ft
- common wood sedgeCarex blandaZones 3 to 9 · Sun to shade · 2 ft
- hairy gramaBouteloua hirsutaZones 4 to 8 · Sun to part shade · 1 to 3 ft
- hop sedgeCarex lupulinaZones 3 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 2 to 4 ft
- meadow barleyHordeum brachyantherumZones 4 to 10 · Full sun · 2 to 3 ft
- needle spikerushEleocharis acicularisZones 3 to 10 · Full sun · 2 ft
- softstem bulrushSchoenoplectus tabernaemontaniZones 3 to 10 · Full sun · 4 to 8 ft
- American beakgrainDiarrhena americanaZones 4 to 8 · Part to full shade · 2 to 3 ft
- American beakgrainDiarrhena obovataZones 4 to 8 · Part to full shade · 2 to 3 ft
- black sedgeCarex nigraZones 4 to 8 · Part to full shade · 6 to 9"
- clustered field sedgeCarex praegracilisZones 4 to 8 · Sun to part shade · 2 to 3 ft
- eastern star sedgeCarex radiataZones 3 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 2 to 3 ft
- fowl mannagrassGlyceria striataZones 4 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 2 to 4 ft
- frank's sedgeCarex frankiiZones 3 to 4 · Sun to shade · 1 to 2 ft
- green bulrushScirpus atrovirensZones 3 to 8 · Sun to part shade · 4 to 5 ft
- prairie sedgeCarex bicknelliiZones 3 to 7 · Sun to part shade · 2 to 3 ft
- sedgeCarex annectensZones 4 to 8 · Sun to part shade · 1 to 3 ft
- sedgeCarex cristatellaZones 3 to 7 · Sun to part shade · 1 to 3 ft
- sedgeCarex swaniiZones 4 to 8 · Sun to part shade · 1 to 3 ft
- white-tinged sedgeCarex albicansZones 4 to 8 · Part to full shade · 12 to 18"
- 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
- blue lyme grassLeymus arenariusZones 4 to 10 · Sun to part shade · 2 to 3 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
- sugarcane plumegrassErianthus giganteusZones 4 to 10 · Full sun · 10 ft
- yellow groove bambooPhyllostachys aureosulcataZones 4 to 9 · Full sun · 12 to 18 ft
- amur silvergrassMiscanthus sacchariflorusZones 4 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 5 to 8 ft
- atlas fescueLolium maireiZones 4 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 2 to 3 ft
- bottlebrush sedgeCarex hystericinaZones 3 to 9 · Sun to shade · 3 ft
- broadleaf sedgeCarex platyphyllaZones 4 to 8 · Sun to shade · 15"
- 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
- quaking grassBriza mediaZones 4 to 11 · Full sun · 2 to 3 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