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Chasmanthium latifolium
Also called Broad Leaved Chasmanthium, Broadleaf Chasmanthium, Northern Sea Oats, River Oats, Seaoats, Inland Wood Oats, Indian Wood Oats
Indian woodoats is a clump-forming, rhizomatous perennial grass native to eastern North America, grown for its flattened, nodding seed heads. It thrives in part shade and moist, well-drained soil, and it is a useful native for woodland edges and rain gardens.
Chasmanthium latifolium, known as fish-on-a-fishing-pole, northern wood-oats, inland sea oats, northern sea oats, and river oats is a species of grass native to the central and eastern United States, Manitoba, and northeastern Mexico; it grows as far north as Pennsylvania and Michigan, where it is a threatened species.
Chasmanthium latifolium is native to the lower forty-eight states.
It is used in landscaping in North America, where it is noted as a native grass that thrives in partial shade; the plant is recommended for USDA hardiness zones 3–9 in acidic sands, loams, and clays. C. latifolium blooms in the late summer to early fall between the months of August and September. C. latifolium is recommended in southeastern rain gardens where intermittent flooding may be present. It can be slow to emerge and take at least one year to establish. Once established, C. latifolium can have a dry matter yield of up to 6,019 pounds per acre.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Chasmanthium latifolium by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
