Sweet Woodreed
Cinna arundinacea
Also known as: Stout Woodreed
Tall arching shade-tolerant grass for floodplain and woodland edges. Open nodding flower panicles in late summer. Faint sweet hay scent when crushed. The seed is recorded as an Indigenous food, without detail on how it was prepared.
- Family
- Poaceae
- Type
- grass
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 2–5 ft
- Spacing
- 1–2 ft apart
- Light
- part shade, shade
- Soil moisture
- moist, wet
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- June, July, August
- Bloom colors
- green
- Landscape uses
- specimen, rain garden, naturalizing
- Native states
- AL, AR, CT, DC, DE, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, VA, VT, WI, WV