Deeproot Plant Base Online - Chasmanthium latifolium

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botanical name:
Chasmanthium latifolium

common name: Spangle grass, Wood Oats, Broadleaf Uniola
synonyms: Uniola latifolia
family: Poaceae

characteristics: grass
height: 1.20m width: 0.90m
growth rate: medium
growth habit: arching
leaf colour: green
flower colour: green
fruit colour: bronze
stem/bark colour: green
main period of interest: Autumn

growing conditions: full sun, part shade, moist soil
prefered soil pH: any
minimum temperature: -29°C
USDA zone: 5 to 8

description:
Hardy perennial grass. Clump-forming with bamboo-like pale green stems and broad bright green leaves, becoming coppery-brown in autumn. Oat-like branching panicles of pendent, diamond-shaped, flattened flower spikes, green at first then turning reddish-bronze in autumn and finally pinkish-buff in winter.

cultivation:
Fertile, well drained soil in sun or part shade.

propagation:
From seed or by division.

usage:
Seedhead can be used for flower arranging.

other notes:
pronounced: chas-MAN-thee-um lat-ee-FOH-lee-um