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The following is a list of official U.S. state grasses.
State | State grass | Scientific name | Image | Year adopted |
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California | Purple needlegrass | Nassella pulchra | 2004[1] | |
Colorado | Blue grama | Bouteloua gracilis | 1987[2] | |
Illinois | Big bluestem (state prairie grass) |
Andropogon gerardii | 1989[3] | |
Kansas | Little bluestem | Schizachyrium scoparium (Andropogon scoparius) |
2010[4] | |
Minnesota | Wild rice (state grain) |
Zizania aquatica | 1977[5] | |
Missouri | Big bluestem | Andropogon gerardii | 2007[6] | |
Montana | Bluebunch wheatgrass | Agropyron spicatum | 1973[7] | |
Nebraska | Little bluestem | Schizachyrium scoparium (Andropogon scoparius) |
1969[8] | |
Nevada | Indian ricegrass | Oryzopsis hymenoides | 1977[9] | |
New Mexico | Blue grama | Bouteloua gracilis | [10] | |
North Dakota | Western wheatgrass | Pascopyrum smithii (Agropyron smithii) |
[11] | |
Oklahoma | Indian grass | Sorghastrum nutans | 1972[12] | |
South Carolina | Indian grass | Sorghastrum nutans | 2001[13] | |
South Dakota | Western wheatgrass | Agropyron smithii | 1970[14] | |
Texas | Sideoats grama | Bouteloua curtipendula | 1971[15] | |
Utah | Indian ricegrass | Oryzopsis hymenoides | 1990[16] | |
Washington | Bluebunch wheatgrass | Agropyron spicatum | 1989[17] | |
Wisconsin | Corn (state grain) |
Zea mays | 1989[18] | |
Wyoming | Western wheatgrass | Agropyron smithii | 2007[19] |