Cinna latifolia
Drooping woodreed, slender woodreed, Slender Woodreed
Family: Poaceae · Type: perennial · Native
Drooping woodreed is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges, northern Coast Ranges, California Cascade Range, and northern Sierra Nevada Mountains in streambanks, wet meadows, and moist conifer forest sites at elevations of 1,350 to 2,800 meters. Flowering from July to August, this plant produces green to purple-tinged grass-like inflorescences 3 to 46 centimeters long with delicate, nodding flower clusters. Growing with tall, slender stems 20 to 190 centimeters in height, it develops gracefully arching grass blades up to 28 centimeters long and 1 to 20 millimeters wide. Its leaf blades feature ligules 2 to 8 millimeters long, with fine, soft texture characteristic of woodland grass species. The plant's small spikelets have glumes 2.5 to 4 millimeters long, with lemmas measuring 2 to 4 millimeters and sometimes bearing a short awn.
Habitat: Streambanks, wet meadows, moist sites in conifer forest
Bloom period: Jul-Aug
Elevation: 1350-2800 m
Bioregions: KR, NCoR, CaRH, n&c SNH
California counties: Alpine, Butte, El Dorado, Humboldt, Lassen, Nevada, Siskiyou, Tulare, Mono, Ventura, Tuolumne, Tehama, Shasta, Glenn, Placer, Plumas, Sierra, Santa Barbara, Calaveras, Mendocino, San Bernardino, Mariposa, Madera
Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.