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Western Wetland Flora

Field Office Guide to Plant Species

Slender Wood-reedgrass
Cinna latifolia (Trevir.) Griseb.

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Family: Grass (Gramineae)
Flowering July-August
Field Marks: This handsome grass has 1-flowered spikelets borne in an open panicle, lemmas with a short awn, and leaves 1/2-3/4 inch wide.
Habitat: Along streams, in wet meadows, damp woods, around springs.
Habit: Perennial grass with thickened rhizomes.
Stems: Upright, unbranched, hollow, up to 6 feet tall, without hairs.
Leaves: Elongated, up to 3/4 inch wide, flat, somewhat rough to the touch, ligules up to 1/3 inch long, jagged at the tip.
Flowers: Borne in spikelets, with many spikelets in an open panicle with thread-like branches; panicles up to 1 foot long; spikelets 1-flowered, up to 1/4 inch long; glumes narrow, lanceolate, rough to the touch; lemmas narrow, lanceolate, rough to the touch, with a short awn.
Sepals: 0.
Petals: 0.
Stamens: 1-3.
Pistils: Ovary superior, smooth.
Grains: Ovoid, smooth.
Notes: The grains are eaten by ducks and other birds.

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