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Chasmanthium latifolium

 
Chasmanthium latifolium
Early August
sea oats
Chasmanthium latifolium
Early October

Common name sea oats
Family poaceae
Life cycle perennial grass
Flowers golden tan
Size 3-4 ft
Light full sun-part shade
Cultural notes ordinary garden soil
From seed germinate at room temperature - can take a while. self-seeds in our garden
Flowers first year from seed sown indoors early.
detailed seed-starting info below
Seed ripensearly October

Gracefully arching stems with bluish green foliage and green flowers through summer, turning a nice tan in autumn - nice for dried arrangements. We grow them in clusters, making a fountain of foliage and seedheads. They make a bit of a nuisance of themselves with their aggressive self-seeding (and somewhat difficult to extract root mass), but we wouldn't want to be without them. The species is native to a large swath of the eastern United States.

Chasmanthium latifolium seed panicles
Mid-October

We left this plant behind in our Pennsylvania garden (and wish it well); we don't grow it in Houston.

Seed for this plant is included on my seed trade list

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Seed-starting details for this plant

  1. Seed wild-collected '98. Cellpack 70F. No germination inside - moved to outside greenhouse after a few weeks, and germination started about a month after sowing

Every year since then, they've self-sowed in my garden - enough for a nice supply, not annoyingly so.


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