Indian Woodoats

Chasmanthium latifolium

Weed Description
Indian woodoats is a clump forming cool-season perennial grass commonly found on moist bluffs or rocky slopes along streams.

Leaves
Are alternate, measure 20cm in length, and 2.5cm in width. Leaves are entire, lanceolate with a rough edge, and hairless.

Flowers
Seedheads turn green but with maturity turn purplish bronze.

Roots
Form from loose clumps of fibrous roots from short rhizomes.

Identifying Characteristics
Clump forming upright plant with flat drooping seedheads that hang in terminal clusters on thread-like pedicils from arched stems. Seedheads are initially green but turn purplish bronze with maturity and with light breezes these seedheads easily wave and flap.

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