| 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.
See also Habitat Account for General Wet Grasslands | |
| 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 |
