Index / Search / Chasmanthium sessiliflorum
§1 Plant
Chasmanthium sessiliflorum (Poir.) Yates
vernacular longleaf woodoats — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Chasmanthium
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 245 counties across 9 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Medium
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -3 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 220 min.
- Precipitation
- 32–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.5–7.2
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 5 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Red
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Summer
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 85,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Medium
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Medium
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 245 counties across 9 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 30 N ▾
- Autauga 01001
- Barbour 01005
- Bibb 01007
- Choctaw 01023
- Clay 01027
- Conecuh 01035
- Cullman 01043
- Dallas 01047
- DeKalb 01049
- Escambia 01053
- Hale 01065
- Henry 01067
- Houston 01069
- Jackson 01071
- Jefferson 01073
- Lauderdale 01077
- Lawrence 01079
- Lee 01081
- Limestone 01083
- Lowndes 01085
- Macon 01087
- Mobile 01097
- Perry 01105
- Pike 01109
- Shelby 01117
- Sumter 01119
- Tallapoosa 01123
- Tuscaloosa 01125
- Walker 01127
- Wilcox 01131
Arkansas view state ↗ 31 N ▾
- Ashley 05003
- Bradley 05011
- Calhoun 05013
- Clark 05019
- Cleburne 05023
- Cross 05037
- Dallas 05039
- Drew 05043
- Faulkner 05045
- Fulton 05049
- Garland 05051
- Hempstead 05057
- Hot Spring 05059
- Howard 05061
- Jefferson 05069
- Lee 05077
- Miller 05091
- Montgomery 05097
- Nevada 05099
- Perry 05105
- Polk 05113
- Pulaski 05119
- Saline 05125
- Scott 05127
- Sevier 05133
- St. Francis 05123
- Union 05139
- Washington 05143
- White 05145
- Woodruff 05147
- Yell 05149
Florida view state ↗ 38 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Brevard 12009
- Calhoun 12013
- Citrus 12017
- Clay 12019
- Columbia 12023
- Dixie 12029
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Flagler 12035
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Hernando 12053
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Jackson 12063
- Jefferson 12065
- Lafayette 12067
- Lake 12069
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Liberty 12077
- Manatee 12081
- Marion 12083
- Nassau 12089
- Okaloosa 12091
- Orange 12095
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Seminole 12117
- Sumter 12119
- Taylor 12123
- Volusia 12127
- Walton 12131
- Washington 12133
Georgia view state ↗ 34 N ▾
- Bartow 13015
- Ben Hill 13017
- Bibb 13021
- Chatham 13051
- Clarke 13059
- Clay 13061
- Columbia 13073
- Decatur 13087
- DeKalb 13089
- Dougherty 13095
- Early 13099
- Elbert 13105
- Franklin 13119
- Glynn 13127
- Henry 13151
- Houston 13153
- Jackson 13157
- Jasper 13159
- Jefferson 13163
- Jones 13169
- Lee 13177
- Liberty 13179
- McIntosh 13191
- Mitchell 13205
- Morgan 13211
- Oglethorpe 13221
- Richmond 13245
- Stephens 13257
- Stewart 13259
- Sumter 13261
- Thomas 13275
- Walker 13295
- Wilkes 13317
- Worth 13321
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 45 N ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Avoyelles 22009
- Beauregard 22011
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Caldwell 22021
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Feliciana 22037
- Evangeline 22039
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Iberia 22045
- Jackson 22049
- Jefferson 22051
- Lafayette 22055
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Livingston 22063
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Ouachita 22073
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Helena 22091
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Tensas 22107
- Union 22111
- Vernon 22115
- Washington 22117
- Webster 22119
- West Carroll 22123
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Mississippi view state ↗ 50 N ▾
- Adams 28001
- Amite 28005
- Benton 28009
- Carroll 28015
- Chickasaw 28017
- Choctaw 28019
- Claiborne 28021
- Clay 28025
- Copiah 28029
- Covington 28031
- DeSoto 28033
- Forrest 28035
- Franklin 28037
- Grenada 28043
- Hancock 28045
- Harrison 28047
- Hinds 28049
- Holmes 28051
- Jackson 28059
- Jasper 28061
- Jefferson 28063
- Jones 28067
- Kemper 28069
- Lafayette 28071
- Lauderdale 28075
- Lawrence 28077
- Lee 28081
- Madison 28089
- Marshall 28093
- Montgomery 28097
- Newton 28101
- Noxubee 28103
- Panola 28107
- Pike 28113
- Pontotoc 28115
- Scott 28123
- Smith 28129
- Stone 28131
- Tate 28137
- Tippah 28139
- Tishomingo 28141
- Union 28145
- Walthall 28147
- Warren 28149
- Washington 28151
- Wayne 28153
- Webster 28155
- Wilkinson 28157
- Winston 28159
- Yalobusha 28161
North Carolina view state ↗ 9 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CHSE2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2703085 ↗Record version
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