Ornamental grasses for zone 9
These 378 ornamental grasses grow in USDA zone 9. Zone 9 winters reach 20 to 30°F (-7 to -1°C). Garden centre favorites come first. Find your zone.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 cherokeensisZones 6 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 6 to 12"
- silver plume grassErianthus alopecuroidesZones 6 to 10 · Sun to part shade · 3 to 10 ft
- 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
- panicled bulrushScirpus microcarpusZones 3 to 9 · Full sun · 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
- bottlebrush sedgeCarex hystericinaZones 3 to 9 · Sun to shade · 3 ft
- grey sedgeCarex divulsaZones 5 to 9 · Sun to shade · 1 to 2 ft
- hard fescueFestuca longifoliaZones 3 to 9 · Full sun · 1 to 2 ft
- Japanese grass sedgeCarex morrowiiZones 5 to 9 · Sun to shade · 12 to 18"
- quaking grassBriza mediaZones 4 to 11 · Full sun · 2 to 3 ft
- rice cutgrassLeersia oryzoidesZones 3 to 9 · Part shade · 5 ft
- ruby grassMelinis nerviglumisZones 8 to 10 · Full sun · 1 to 2 ft
- silver feather grassStipa barbataZones 6 to 10 · Full sun · 2 to 3 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
- hedge bambooPhyllostachys glaucaZones 7 to 10 · Sun to part shade · 15 to 25 ft
- needle grassStipa capillataZones 6 to 9 · Full sun · 2 to 3 ft
- slender wheatgrassElymus trachycaulusZones 3 to 9 · Full sun · 5 ft
- star sedgeCarex echinataZones 3 to 9 · Sun to shade · 4 ft
- thin paspalumPaspalum setaceumZones 4 to 10 · 2 ft
- Banana Boat sedgeCarex siderosticta 'Banana Boat'Zones 5 to 9 · Part to full shade · 6 to 12"
- Frosted Curls sedgeCarex comans 'Frosted Curls'Zones 7 to 10 · Sun to part shade · 1 to 2 ft
- Nicolas Japanese forest grassHakonechloa macra 'Nicolas'Zones 5 to 9 · Sun to shade · 12 to 18"
- Stripe It Rich Japanese forest grassHakonechloa macra 'Stripe It Rich'Zones 5 to 9 · Sun to shade · 12 to 18"
- 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
- Cappuccino sedgeCarex tenuiculmis 'Cappuccino'Zones 7 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 12 to 18"
- 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
- EverColor Everillo sedgeCarex 'EverColor Everillo'Zones 5 to 9 · Sun to shade · 12 to 18"
- Everoro sedgeCarex oshimensis 'Everoro'Zones 5 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 12 to 18"