Common Native Grasses & Grass-Like Plants

Viro-Cell & Viro-Tube Plant Species List

Following is a list of some of the native grasses and grass-like landscape gardening plants grown. However, not all varieties are available from each grower.

Often in Stock

  • Bothriochloa macra Red Leg grass
  • Chloris truncata Windmill grass
  • Danthonia caespitosa Wallaby grass
  • Danthonia linkii Wallaby grass
  • Danthonia richardsonii Wallaby grass
  • Dianella caerulea Blue Flax Lilly
  • Dianella revoluta Mauve Flax Lilly
  • Dianella tasmanica
  • Imperata cylindrica Blady grass
  • Lomandra longifolia Spiny Mat Rush
  • Microlaena stipoides Weeping grass
  • Paspalum distichum Water couch
  • Stipa verticillata Slender Bamboo grass
  • Pennisetum alopecuroides Swamp foxtail
  • Poa labillardieri Large Tussock grass
  • Poa siebriana Snow grass
  • Themeda australis Kangaroo grass

Small Quantities Often in Stock

  • Capillipedum spicigerum Scented Top grass
  • Chloris ventricosa
  • Cymbopogon refractus Barbed wire grass
  • Danthonia setacea Wallaby grass
  • Dicanthium sercieum Queensland Blue grass
  • Dichelachne crinita Long haired plume grass
  • Paspalum vaginatum Salt water couch
  • Poa poiformis Coastal Tussock grass
  • Sorghum leiocladum
  • Sporobolous virginicus Sand couch
  • Stipa scabra


NOTE: We don't recommend smaller native grasses such as Danthonia for landscape gardening projects. The bred or selected forms make better choices, as there is consistency. Many native grasses are highly variable.