Uniola latifolia Michx.
Broadleaf Uniola

Habit: 		Tall erect perennials with short, strong rhizomes forming colonies.
Culms: 		Simple, 60-140 cm. tall, erect or spreading.
Blade: 		Flat, 10-25 cm. long, 5-25 mm. wide, smooth except often ciliate at the base or
		with a few hairs above at the base and the scabrous margins.
Sheath: 	Usually shorter than the internodes.
Ligule: 	1 mm. long, membranous, truncate, fringed with short hairs.
Inflorescence: 	Panicle 10-20 cm. long, drooping, the filiform branches bearing a
		few pendulous, broadly oval, very flat spikelets on capillary pedicels.
Spikelets: 	Very flat, 2-edged, 6-12-flowered, 20-35 mm. long, ovate or oblong green or
		finally tawny, rachilla disarticulating above the glumes and between the florets.
Glumes: 	Compressed-keeled, acute or acuminate, nearly equal, 5-6 mm. long, ciliate;
		many-nerved, the lower lemma empty.  Callus pilose.
Palea: 		Shorter than its lemma, rigid, its keels winged, bowed out at base.
Stamen: 	1
Fruit: 		Grain flat, oval, black, 5 mm. long.
Habitat: 	Rich woods, shaded slopes and low thickets.  August-September.
Kansas Range:	East half.
Remarks: 	Suitable for planting as an ornamental.
Synonyms:	Chasmanthium latifolium (Michx.) Yates