Drooping Woodreed

Cinna latifolia (Trev.) Griseb. in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. 4: 435. 1853
Agrostis latifolia Trev.; Gopp. Beschr. Bot. Gart. Breslau 82. 1830.
Cinna expansa Link, Hort. Berol. 2: 236. 1833. (Type from Western North America.)
Cinna pendula Trin. Mem. Acad. St.-Petersb. VI. 6 2 : 280. 1841. (Localities cited, Norway, Sitka.
Baikal.) Cinna arundinacea var. pendula A. Gray, Man. ed. 2. 545. 1856. (Based on Cinna pendula Trin.) Cinna pendula var. glomerula Scribn. Proc. Acad. Phila. 1884: 290. 1884. (Type from Washington,
Tweedy.) Cinna Bolanderi Scribn. Proc. Acad. Phila. 1884: 290. 1884. (Type from California, Bolander
6090.) Cinna pendula var. Bolanderi Vasey, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 3: 57. 1892. (Based on C. Bolanderi
Scribn.) Cinna pendula var. mutica Vasey, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 3 : 57. 1892. (Type from Oregon, Cusick.)
Culms erect or decumbent at base, scaberulous below the nodes, 3or 5-noded, 1-1 .5 meters tall; sheaths scaberulous; ligule nerved, scaberulous, acutish, lacerate, about 1 cm. long; blades scabrous, 10-20 cm. long, as much as 1 cm. or even 1.5 cm. wide; panicle usually green, oblong, loose, 15-40 cm. long, the axis glabrous below, scabrous above, the branches slender, rather distant, flexuous, fascicled, scabrous, naked below, spreading or drooping, the lower as much as 20 cm. long; spikelets 3.5-4 mm. long, acute; glumes scaberulous, the first 1-nerved, the second rather faintly 3-nerved; lemma faintly 3-nerved, a little shorter than the glumes, the awn as much as 1 mm. long, sometimes wanting; palea 2-nerved, the nerves very close together; prolongation of the rachilla minute.
Type locality: Europe.
Distribution: Moist woods. Newfoundland and Labrador to Alaska, and southward to Connecticut, in the mountains to North Carolina, to Michigan, Illinois, South Dakota, in the mountains to northern New Mexico, to Utah and central California; also in northern Eurasia.