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§1 Plant
Cinna latifolia (Trevis. ex Goepp.) Griseb.
vernacular drooping woodreed — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Cinna
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Native
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Native
§2b
County-level range
· 213 counties across 19 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Medium
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -38 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 80 min.
- Precipitation
- 16–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.7–7
- Root depth
- 10 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 4.5 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Summer
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 2,100,000
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Graze palatability
- Medium
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 213 counties across 19 states/territories.
Alaska view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Alger 26003
- Alpena 26007
- Arenac 26011
- Baraga 26013
- Charlevoix 26029
- Cheboygan 26031
- Chippewa 26033
- Crawford 26039
- Emmet 26047
- Gogebic 26053
- Houghton 26061
- Iron 26071
- Keweenaw 26083
- Leelanau 26089
- Luce 26095
- Mackinac 26097
- Macomb 26099
- Manistee 26101
- Marquette 26103
- Menominee 26109
- Midland 26111
- Muskegon 26121
- Ontonagon 26131
- Ottawa 26139
- Roscommon 26143
- Schoolcraft 26153
- St. Clair 26147
Minnesota view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Aitkin 27001
- Anoka 27003
- Beltrami 27007
- Carlton 27017
- Cass 27021
- Clearwater 27029
- Cook 27031
- Crow Wing 27035
- Douglas 27041
- Hennepin 27053
- Hubbard 27057
- Isanti 27059
- Itasca 27061
- Kittson 27069
- Koochiching 27071
- Lake 27075
- Lake of the Woods 27077
- Mahnomen 27087
- Marshall 27089
- Morrison 27097
- Pine 27115
- Polk 27119
- Roseau 27135
- St. Louis 27137
- Stearns 27145
Montana view state ↗ 5 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 10 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 2 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 45 N ▾
- Albany 36001
- Allegany 36003
- Broome 36007
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Cayuga 36011
- Chemung 36015
- Chenango 36017
- Clinton 36019
- Columbia 36021
- Delaware 36025
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Franklin 36033
- Greene 36039
- Hamilton 36041
- Herkimer 36043
- Jefferson 36045
- Kings 36047
- Lewis 36049
- Livingston 36051
- Madison 36053
- Monroe 36055
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Oswego 36075
- Otsego 36077
- Queens 36081
- Rensselaer 36083
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- Schuyler 36097
- Seneca 36099
- St. Lawrence 36089
- Suffolk 36103
- Sullivan 36105
- Tioga 36107
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
- Wyoming 36121
- Yates 36123
North Carolina view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 29 N ▾
- Adams 42001
- Bedford 42009
- Blair 42013
- Butler 42019
- Cambria 42021
- Cameron 42023
- Carbon 42025
- Clinton 42035
- Crawford 42039
- Elk 42047
- Erie 42049
- Forest 42053
- Huntingdon 42061
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lehigh 42077
- Lycoming 42081
- McKean 42083
- Monroe 42089
- Northampton 42095
- Pike 42103
- Potter 42105
- Schuylkill 42107
- Somerset 42111
- Sullivan 42113
- Susquehanna 42115
- Tioga 42117
- Warren 42123
- Wayne 42127
- Wyoming 42131
Tennessee view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 3 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 4 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CILA2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2704845 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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