River Oats
Chasmanthium latifolium
Purple flowers from June into October, worked by oil bees. It grows wild in 7 of West Virginia’s 55 counties.
- Light
- Full shade to part sun
- Soil
- Moist soil
- Size
- 3.5 ft to 5 ft tall, 1.8 ft wide
- Flowers
- Purple, Jun to Oct
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Spreading rhizomes or runners; wants 10 in of soil
- Kind
- Grass or sedge
At its grown size
in flowerfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 5 kinds of caterpillars
- On its flowers
- Oil bee (Rediviva ruficornis)
Grows well with
Heartleaf Aster
Sweet Goldenrod
Wrinkle-leaf Goldenrod
Mapleleaf Viburnum
Calico Aster
Bluestem Goldenrod
New Jersey Tea
New England Aster
Facts from the Quercus record for Chasmanthium latifolium.