Cinna arundinacea L.

Sweet Wood Reed; Common Wood Reed; Stout Wood Reed

Herb

Perennial

Vascular

Sweet Wood Reed is a native perennial herb in the Grass family (Poaceae). It can be found in the eastern half of Alabama Sweet Wood Reed grows in moist hardwood forest, along streams, and in swamp forests. It is a perennial from short rhizomes. The stems are erect, solitary or in small clumps, glabrous, and 3-4 feet in height. The stems often have a some-what bulbous base. Leaf sheaths are glabrous. The leaves are alternate, lanceolate, flat, glabrous, with scabrous margins. Flowers are produced in terminal, erect to spreading, branched panicles. Spikelets are laterally compressed and have one floret. The lemma has one vein and the upper glume has 3 prominent veins. The fruit is a grain. Sweet Wood Reed is sometimes available from native plant nurseries. It prefers moist to wet loamy soils in full sun to partial shade.—A. Diamond.

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Native

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