| Author | L. | |
| Distribution | Throughout the state, including the northern Outer Banks.
N.B. and MN south to GA and TX. | |
| Abundance | Fairly common to common, although scarce in the Sandhills proper. Not numerous in the higher Mountains and in parts of the Coastal Plain. | |
| Habitat | Wet to irregularly inundated bottomland forests, floodplain forests, streamsides, tidal freshwater marshes. This is one of the more common and widespread grasses of wet bottomland forests across the state. |
| Phenology | Flowering and fruiting July-October. | |
| Identification | This grass typically grows in populations of scattered individuals. The stems grow 2-4 feet tall, with a terminal inflorescence from 6 inches to 1.5 feet long and composed of a series of well-spaced, gray-green or whitish whorls. Sometimes the whorls are all swept to one side of the stem and arched. C. latifolia occurs only in the Mountains and differs by a more open inflorescence with fewer whorls, and it has smaller spikelets (usually 2.5-4 mm long vs. 4.5-6 mm long in C. arundinacea). | |
| Taxonomic Comments | None
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| Other Common Name(s) | Stout Woodreed, Woodreed Grass | |
| State Rank | S5 | |
| Global Rank | G5 | |
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| US Status | | |
| USACE-agcp | FACW link |
| USACE-emp | FACW link |
