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.
- 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"
- short's sedgeCarex shortianaZones 4 to 7 · 3 ft
- American sloughgrassBeckmannia syzigachneZones 3 to 7 · 4 ft
- james sedgeCarex jamesiiZones 4 to 8 · 14"
- thin paspalumPaspalum setaceumZones 4 to 10 · 2 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
- Dancing Wind big bluestemAndropogon gerardi 'Dancing Wind'Zones 4 to 9 · Full sun · 5 to 6 ft
- Dust Devil switchgrassPanicum virgatum 'Dust Devil'Zones 4 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 5 ft
- Indian Steel Indian grassSorghastrum nutans 'Indian Steel'Zones 4 to 9 · Full sun · 3 to 5 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
- Ryegrass tall fescueLolium multiflorum 'Ryegrass'Zones 4 to 9 · Sun to part shade
- 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
- Blue Whiskers blue fescueFestuca glauca 'Blue Whiskers'Zones 4 to 9 · Sun to part shade
- Bunny Tails lagurusLagurus ovatus 'Bunny Tails'Zones 4 to 10 · Full sun
- Pennlawn red fescueFestuca rubra 'Pennlawn'Zones 3 to 6 · Sun to part shade · 3"
- European meadow rushJuncus inflexusZones 4 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 1 to 3 ft
- crinkled hair grassAvenella flexuosaZones 4 to 7 · Sun to part shade · 2 to 3 ft
- 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"
- brome-like sedgeCarex bromoidesZones 4 to 8 · Sun to part shade · 9 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
- sedgeCarex crus-corviZones 4 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 1 to 3 ft
- squarrose sedgeCarex squarrosaZones 4 to 8 · Sun to shade · 2 ft
- Casblue blue fescueFestuca glauca 'Casblue'Zones 4 to 8 · Sun to part shade
- 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
- rufous bulrushScirpus pendulusZones 4 to 8 · Full sun · 5 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
- oval sedgeCarex leporinaZones 4 to 8 · Part to full shade · 1 to 3 ft
- snowy wood rushLuzula niveaZones 4 to 9 · Part to full shade · 1 to 2 ft
- tufted sedgeCarex elataZones 4 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 1 to 3 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