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