Grasses and sedges of Punjab
286 grasses and sedges on the India list have an open record placed in Punjab, 4 endemic to India.
A species is in a state when it has an open record placed there: a record anyone can check online (a GBIF record, or a research-grade iNaturalist observation). Threatened: IUCN Red List Critically Endangered, Endangered or Vulnerable. List of the week of 2026-11-09.
Grasses and sedges of Punjab endemic to India (4)
All grasses and sedges of Punjab on the list (286)
- Achnatherum brandisii
- Achnatherum jacquemontii
- Acrachne racemosa goosegrass
- Aegialina pumila
- Agrostis canina Velvet Bent
- Agrostis gigantea redtop
- Agrostis munroana
- Agrostis pilosula
- Alloteropsis cimicina Bugseed Grass
- Alopecurus aequalis short-awn foxtail
- Alopecurus arundinaceus Creeping Foxtail
- Alopecurus myosuroides Black-grass
- Anthoxanthum laxum
- Apluda mutica Glutene-rice Grass
- Arctopoa tibetica
- Aristida adscensionis sixweeks three-awn
- Aristida cyanantha
- Aristida funiculata
- Aristida mutabilis
- Arthraxon lanceolatus
- Arundinella nepalensis Dardy's Oats
- Arundinella setosa
- Arundo donax giant reed
- Avena fatua wild oat
- Bambusa vulgaris common bamboo
- Blysmus compressus Flat-sedge
- Bolboschoenus glaucus tuberous bulrush
- Bothriochloa pertusa pitted bluestem
- Bromus arvensis Field Brome
- Bromus danthoniae Oat Brome
- Bromus gracillimus
- Bromus hordeaceus common soft brome
- Bromus japonicus Japanese brome
- Bromus oxyodon
- Bromus ramosus Hairy-brome
- Bromus riparius Meadow Brome
- Bromus squarrosus corn brome
- Bromus tectorum Cheatgrass
- Calamagrostis elatior
- Calamagrostis emodensis Garhwal Reedgrass
- Calamagrostis holciformis
- Calamagrostis lahulensis
- Calamagrostis pseudophragmites coastal small-reed
- Campeiostachys nutans
- Capillipedium parviflorum Scented Top
- Carex atrata Black Alpine Sedge
- Carex borii
- Carex breviculmis grassland sedge
- Carex cruciata Cross Sedge
- Carex deasyi
- Carex fedia
- Carex filicina
- Carex hebecarpa
- Carex inanis
- Carex kokanica
- Carex longipes
- Carex melanantha
- Carex microglochin bristle sedge
- Carex nivalis
- Carex norvegica Intermediate Sedge
- Carex nubigena
- Carex nudicarpa
- Carex obscura
- Carex orbicularis
- Carex ovoidispica
- Carex parva
- Carex plectobasis
- Carex pseudofoetida
- Carex pseudolaxa
- Carex psychrophila
- Carex rochebrunei
- Carex schlagintweitiana
- Carex songarica
- Carex stenophylla involute-leaved sedge
- Carex unciniiformis
- Carex wallichiana
- Catabrosa aquatica Water Whorl-grass
- Catabrosella himalaica
- Cenchrus americanus
- Cenchrus biflorus Indian sandbur
- Cenchrus ciliaris buffelgrass
- Cenchrus echinatus Southern Sandbur
- Cenchrus flaccidus
- Cenchrus lanatus
- Cenchrus pennisetiformis
- Cenchrus purpureus napier grass
- Cenchrus setigerus birdwood grass
- Chloris flagellifera
- Chrysopogon aucheri
- Chrysopogon fulvus Reddish-Yellow Beardgrass
- Chrysopogon gryllus Scented Grass
- Chrysopogon hackelii
- Chrysopogon nodulibarbis
- Chrysopogon serrulatus Golden Beard Grass
- Chrysopogon zizanioides Vetiver
- Coix lacryma-jobi Job's Tears
- Cymbopogon commutatus
- Cymbopogon martini rosha grass
- Cyperus alternifolius Umbrella Papyrus
- Cyperus alulatus
- Cyperus arenarius
- Cyperus brevifolioides
- Cyperus brevifolius Shortleaf Spikesedge
- Cyperus diaphanus
- Cyperus difformis Variable Flatsedge
- Cyperus dubius soft sedge
- Cyperus flavidus yellow flatsedge
- Cyperus iria Rice flat-sedge
- Cyperus laevigatus Smooth Flatsedge
- Cyperus metzii Asian Spikesedge
- Cyperus michelianus
- Cyperus microiria Asian Flatsedge
- Cyperus niveus snow white sedge
- Cyperus nutans
- Cyperus pangorei
- Cyperus pilosus fuzzy flatsedge
- Cyperus pseudokyllingioides
- Cyperus pumilus Annual Flat-sedge
- Cyperus rotundus Purple nutsedge
- Cyperus serotinus Umbrella Sedge
- Cyperus squarrosus Bearded Flatsedge
- Dactylis glomerata orchard grass
- Dactyloctenium aegyptium Durban Crowfoot
- Dactyloctenium scindicum Sindh Crowfoot
- Dendrocalamus strictus Male Bamboo
- Deschampsia cespitosa tufted hair grass
- Desmostachya bipinnata halfa grass
- Dichanthium annulatum Kleberg's bluestem
- Dichanthium foveolatum
- Digitaria bicornis Asian Crabgrass
- Digitaria ciliaris Tropical Finger-grass
- Digitaria parviflora Small-flowered Finger Grass
- Digitaria sanguinalis Hairy Crabgrass
- Digitaria violascens Violet Crabgrass
- Dinebra chinensis Chinese Sprangletop
- Echinochloa colona Jungle Rice
- Echinochloa colonum
- Echinochloa crus-galli barnyardgrass
- Eleocharis acicularis Needle Spikerush
- Eleocharis congesta spikerush
- Eleocharis mitracarpa
- Eleocharis ovata Ovate Spikerush
- Eleocharis palustris common spikerush
- Eleocharis quinqueflora Few-flower Spikerush
- Eleocharis uniglumis Creeping Spikerush
- Eleusine indica Goose Grass
- Elymus dentatus
- Elymus gmelinii wildrye
- Elymus hystrix bottlebrush grass
- Elymus longearistatus
- Elymus semicostatus drooping wildrye
- Elymus sibiricus Siberian Wild Rye
- Enneapogon persicus Persian Pappus-Grass
- Enteropogon dolichostachyus
- Eragrostis minor Little Lovegrass
- Eragrostis papposa
- Eragrostis pilosa Jersey Love-grass
- Eragrostis tenella Feather Lovegrass
- Eragrostis tremula
- Eragrostis viscosa Sticky Love Grass
- Eriochloa procera Cup Grass
- Eriochloa villosa Hairy Cupgrass
- Erioscirpus comosus
- Erioscirpus microstachyus
- Eulaliopsis binata sabaigrass
- Festuca arenaria
- Festuca cumminsii
- Festuca kashmiriana Kashmir Grass
- Festuca lucida
- Festuca myuros
- Festuca rubra red fescue DD
- Festuca tibetica
- Festuca valesiaca Valais Fescue
- Fimbristylis aestivalis Summer Fimbry
- Fimbristylis bisumbellata
- Fimbristylis dichotoma Common Fringe-rush
- Fimbristylis falcata
- Fuirena pubescens
- Hackelochloa granularis Pitscale Grass
- Hemarthria compressa Jove grass
- Heteropogon contortus tanglehead
- Hordeum murinum wall barley
- Hordeum vulgare Common Barley
- Hyalopoa nutans
- Imperata cylindrica Cogon Grass
- Isachne himalaica
- Ischaemum rugosum Ribbed Murainagrass
- Isolepis setacea Bristle-leaf Bulrush
- Janochloa antidotalis
- Koeleria pyramidata Prairie Junegrass
- Koeleria spicata
- Lasiurus scindicus
- Leersia hexandra Native rice grass
- Leymus secalinus wildrye
- Lolium giganteum Giant Fescue
- Lolium remotum Flaxfield Rye-grass
- Lolium temulentum Darnel Ryegrass
- Louisiella paludosa
- Melica cupani
- Melica persica Persian Melic Grass
- Milium effusum Wood Millet
- Muhlenbergia himalayensis
- Neyraudia arundinacea Madagascar grass
- Neyraudia reynaudiana Burma Reed
- Oplismenus compositus Awned Panick Grass
- Oryza sativa Asian Rice
- Panicum miliaceum Proso Millet
- Panicum sumatrense Barefoot Panicgrass
- Paspalum distichum knot grass
- Phacelurus speciosus
- Phalaris minor Lesser Canary Grass
- Phleum alpinum Alpine Timothy
- Phleum arenarium Sand Cat's-tail
- Phleum paniculatum British timothy
- Phragmites australis common reed
- Piptatheropsis canadensis Canadian Ricegrass
- Piptatherum laterale
- Piptatherum molinioides
- Piptatherum munroi
- Poa alberti
- Poa alpina Alpine Bluegrass
- Poa annua Annual Meadow-grass
- Poa araratica
- Poa attenuata
- Poa bulbosa Bulbous Bluegrass
- Poa diaphora
- Poa glauca timberline bluegrass
- Poa himalayana
- Poa infirma Early Meadow-grass
- Poa nemoralis Wood Meadow-grass
- Poa nepalensis
- Poa pagophila
- Poa pratensis Smooth Meadow-grass
- Poa sterilis
- Poa supina supine bluegrass
- Poa tianschanica
- Poa urssulensis
- Poa versicolor
- Pogonatherum crinitum Poginatherum crinitum
- Polypogon fugax Asian minor rabbit’s-foot grass
- Polypogon monspeliensis rabbitfoot grass
- Polypogon viridis water beard grass
- Polytoca gigantea
- Pseudopogonatherum quadrinerve
- Pseudopogonatherum speciosum
- Ptilagrostis concinna
- Puccinellia distans european alkali grass
- Puccinellia kashmiriana
- Puccinellia minuta
- Rostraria cristata Mediterranean Hair-grass
- Saccharum officinarum Sugarcane
- Saccharum spontaneum Wild Cane
- Schoenoplectiella juncoides rock bulrush
- Schoenoplectiella mucronata Bog Bulrush
- Schoenoplectiella supina
- Schoenoplectus lacustris Common Club-rush
- Schoenoplectus triqueter Triangular Club-rush
- Setaria flavida
- Setaria intermedia
- Setaria italica Foxtail Bristle-grass
- Setaria pumila yellow foxtail
- Setaria punctata
- Setaria viridis Green Bristle Grass
- Sorghum halepense Johnson grass
- Sorghum propinquum sorghum
- Sporobolus diandrus tussock dropseed
- Sporobolus ioclados Pan Dropseed
- Stipa capillacea
- Stipa gaubae
- Tenaxia cachemyriana
- Tenaxia cumminsii
- Tetrapogon villosus
- Themeda anathera
- Thysanolaena latifolia Nepalese Broom Grass
- Tragus mongolorum Indian Bur Grass
- Tricholaena teneriffae
- Tripidium arundinaceum
- Tripidium bengalense
- Tripidium ravennae ravenna grass
- Tripidium rufipilum
- Trisetopsis aspera
- Triticum aestivum Bread Wheat
- Urochloa distachyos green summer grass
- Urochloa ramosa Browntop Millet
- Urochloa remota
- Urochloa villosa
Grasses and sedges elsewhere
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Other species of Punjab
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