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Chasmanthium latifolium

Northern Sea Oats (River oats)

Chasmanthium latifolium, Northern sea oats.  Despite its name, Northern sea oats, has nothing to do with the sea.  Chasmanthium latifolium grows well in a variety of soils with varying moisture levels. This 4' clumping warm season grass with boldly textured blue - green foliage is valued for its drooping green oat-like flower spikelets which turn bronze in the fall then lighten up into the winter. Northern sea oats is partially shade tolerant.

• »  Ornamental seed heads
• »  Slowly spread by rhizomes
• »  Winter interest

• Category

  • Native Wetland Grasses

• Characteristics

  • Exposure -Sun
  • Partial Shade
  • 2' - 4'
  • Clumping
  • Prolific Seeder
  • Rhizomatous - Slow
  • Summer
  • Fall
  • Spring
  • Summer
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Flood Plain - Upland
  • Green
  • Cover
  • Food
  • Nesting
  • Songbirds
  • Waterfowl
  • Deer Resistant
  • FACU
  • Bog/Marsh
  • Warm Season Grass
  • Container
  • Cut Flower
  • Dried Flower
  • Drought Tolerant
  • Erosion Control
  • Fibrous Roots
  • Focal Point
  • Great Foliage
  • Mass Planting
  • Native
  • Naturalizing
  • Ornamental Flower
  • Storm Water Basin
  • Winter Persistant
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