Ornamental grasses for zone 8
These 440 ornamental grasses grow in USDA zone 8. Zone 8 winters reach 10 to 20°F (-12 to -7°C). Garden centre favorites come first. Find your zone.
- Holy Smoke big bluestemAndropogon gerardi 'Holy Smoke'Zones 4 to 9 · Full sun · 4 to 6 ft
- Hot Rod switchgrassPanicum virgatum 'Hot Rod'Zones 5 to 9 · Sun to part shade
- Prairie Fire switchgrassPanicum virgatum 'Prairie Fire'Zones 5 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 4 to 5 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
- spreading sedgeCarex laxiculmisZones 5 to 9 · Part to full shade · 6 to 12"
- 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
- bristly sedgeCarex comosaZones 3 to 10 · Sun to part shade · 2 to 3 ft
- broomsedge bluestemAnatherum leucostachyumZones 5 to 10 · Sun to part shade · 2 to 4 ft
- bushy bluestemAnatherum glomeratumZones 5 to 9 · Full sun · 3 to 6 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
- fox red curly sedgeCarex buchananiiZones 6 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 1 to 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
- Pacific reedgrassCalamagrostis nutkaensisZones 7 to 11 · Sun to part shade · 3 to 5 ft
- purple moor grassMolinia caeruleaZones 5 to 8 · Sun to part shade · 4 to 8 ft
- softstem bulrushSchoenoplectus tabernaemontaniZones 3 to 10 · Full sun · 4 to 8 ft
- star rushRhynchospora colorataZones 7 to 10 · Sun to part shade · 1 to 2 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
- foothill sedgeCarex tumulicolaZones 8 to 10 · Sun to shade · 1 to 2 ft
- fowl mannagrassGlyceria striataZones 4 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 2 to 4 ft
- giant cane bambooArundinaria giganteaZones 5 to 9 · Sun to shade · 5 to 12 ft
- green bulrushScirpus atrovirensZones 3 to 8 · Sun to part shade · 4 to 5 ft
- orange new zealand sedgeCarex testaceaZones 6 to 10 · Sun to part shade · 1 to 2 ft
- sand-dune sedgeCarex pansaZones 7 to 10 · Full sun · 12 to 15"
- sand lovegrassEragrostis trichodesZones 5 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 2 to 4 ft
- sedgeCarex annectensZones 4 to 8 · Sun to part shade · 1 to 3 ft
- sedgeCarex cherokeensisZones 6 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 6 to 12"
- sedgeCarex swaniiZones 4 to 8 · Sun to part shade · 1 to 3 ft
- silver plume grassErianthus alopecuroidesZones 6 to 10 · Sun to part shade · 3 to 10 ft
- white-tinged sedgeCarex albicansZones 4 to 8 · Part to full shade · 12 to 18"
- hardy pampas grassTripidium ravennaeZones 5 to 9 · Full sun · 6 to 12 ft
- Prairie Winds Blue Paradise little bluestemSchizachyrium scoparium 'Prairie Winds Blue Paradise'Zones 3 to 9 · Full sun
- First Knight fountain grassPennisetum 'First Knight'Zones 7 to 11 · Sun to part shade · 4 to 5 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
- seep muhlyMuhlenbergia reverchoniiZones 5 to 9 · Full sun · 3 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
- blue moor grassSesleria caeruleaZones 5 to 8 · Sun to part shade · 6 to 12"
- bottlebrush sedgeCarex hystericinaZones 3 to 9 · Sun to shade · 3 ft
- broadleaf sedgeCarex platyphyllaZones 4 to 8 · Sun to shade · 15"
- grey sedgeCarex divulsaZones 5 to 9 · Sun to shade · 1 to 2 ft