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Drooping woodreed

Cinna latifolia

Also called Slender Woodreed, Broad Leaved Reedgrass, Nodding Woodreed, Slender Wood Reedgrass

Drooping woodreed
Photo: Robert H. Mohlenbrock., Public domain

Drooping woodreed is a tall, clump-forming wild grass of cool, moist woodland edges and riverbanks across the Northern Hemisphere. It is grown mainly in naturalistic or wet woodland plantings, where moisture and some shade are the keys to success.

Family
Poaceae (Grass family)
Grows as
Grass
Light
Part shade, Shade
Water
Keep the soil consistently moist, especially in summer.
Soil
Moist, humus-rich loam or leaf mould.
Temperature
Hardy in cool temperate climates; tolerates cold winters but suffers in hot, dry summers.
How easy
Easy
Native range
N. Europe to N. & C. Japan, Subarctic America to U.S.A.
Climate
temperate

About

Cinna latifolia is a species of grass known by the common name drooping woodreed. It is a native bunchgrass to the Northern Hemisphere, where it has a circumboreal distribution. It grows in moist habitat, such as forest understory and riverbanks. It reaches nearly two meters in maximum height. The inflorescence is an open array of spikelets generally green to purple-tinted in color. It flowers in late summer and fall.

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cinna latifolia 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.

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