BROAD-LEAF WOOD-OATS
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Chasmanthium latifolium (Michx. ) Yates
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| Riley County, Kansas |
| Perennial |
| Height: 2-4 feet |
| Family: Poaceae - Grass Family |
| Flowering Period: July, August, September |
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| Also Called: | | Wild oats. | | Culms: | | Erect, simple or sparingly branched, hollow, glabrous, ribbed. | | Blades: | | Flat, 2 to 8.5 inches long, .25 to 1 inch wide, midrib conspicuous, glabrous or sparsely soft-hairy near ligule; margins rough; tips pointed. | | Sheaths: | | Usually shorter than internodes, open, glabrous. | | Ligules: | | Membranous, fringed with short hairs. | | Inflorescences: | | Panicles, 5-10 inches long, drooping. | | Spikelets: | | On long, threadlike stalks, 5-17-flowered, ovate to broadly oblong, .5 to 1.5 inch long, .5 to .75 inch wide, flat, green, tawny when mature; awns absent; glumes and lemmas keeled. | | Habitat: | | Wooded areas and along streams, in moist soils. | | Distribution: | | East 1/2 of Kansas | | Uses: | | Native Americans occasionally ate the seeds. Wild oats sometimes is used in dried floral arrangements. | | Comments: | | Rhizomatous. |
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