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Description and Adaptation. Sea oats is a long lived, slow growing, warm season, perennial grass commonly associated with the upper dunes along beach fronts. It grows erect to approximately 6 feet in height at maturity, and has leaves that can grow to 24 inches in length.
Description. General: Sea oats is a native, warm-season, semi-tropical, rhizomatous perennial, C4 grass dominating many beach and dune environments. Culms are stout, erect 1-2 meters tall, nodes and internodes glabrous. Leaves are both basal and cauline with blades elongate to 60 cm long and 1.2 cm wide, both surfaces glabrous.
Uniola paniculata (Sea Oats) is a deep-rooted spreading perennial grass with stout culms and showy tan inflorescences rising up to 6 ft. tall (180 cm). On display from summer to fall, their conspicuous spikelets of oat-like fruits persist on the plant, giving it a beautiful texture as the wind blows. Useful in dried arrangements, the seed heads ...
Northern Sea Oats is a clump-forming, upright, ornamental grass. It grows best in shady conditions in moist soils, and it is often found in woods, rocky slopes along streams, and on moist bluffs. The hallmark of this ornamental grass is its flat, drooping seed heads which will flutter even in gentle winds.
Cousin of Uniola paniculata or “sea oats,” C. latifolium steers clear of the sea. Instead, it can be found in woodland gardens near streams. It appears bright green in spring, evolving to a reddish copper in fall and fading to soft tan by winter.
Uniola paniculata, also known as sea oats, seaside oats, araña, and arroz de costa, [1] is a tall subtropical grass that is an important component of coastal sand dune and beach plant communities in the southeastern United States, eastern Mexico and some Caribbean islands.
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