Grass or grass-like · Poaceae
Drooping woodreed
Cinna latifolia
Drooping woodreed is recorded as native to 32 states and territories in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in 363 counties of those states by USDA PLANTS.
Key facts · USDA PLANTS
Drooping woodreed at a glance
- Native in
- 363 counties, across 32 states and territories
- Estimated cold hardiness
- Zone 3b PLANTS minimum temperature −38°F
- Mature height
- 4.5 ft PLANTS mature height
- Light and water
- Sun to part shade High water use
Estimated cold hardiness: zone 3b. PLANTS gives a minimum temperature of −38°F; zone 3b winters bottom out at −35°F, the coldest half-zone that stays within that limit.
Drooping woodreed is recorded as native to 32 states and territories in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in 363 counties of those states by USDA PLANTS.
Counties where it is native
The 15 counties with the most ZIP codes among the 363 where it is listed.
Native counties by state
- Alaska 7 counties
- Arizona 1 county
- California 15 counties
- Colorado 12 counties
- Connecticut statewide record
- Idaho 10 counties
- Illinois 2 counties
- Kentucky 2 counties
- Maine 15 counties
- Maryland 2 counties
- Massachusetts 7 counties
- Michigan 27 counties
- Minnesota 24 counties
- Montana 3 counties
- Nevada 3 counties
- New Hampshire 10 counties
- New Mexico 6 counties
- New York 45 counties
- North Carolina 7 counties
- North Dakota 9 counties
- Ohio 1 county
- Oregon 25 counties
- Pennsylvania 29 counties
- South Dakota 2 counties
- Tennessee 6 counties
- Utah 8 counties
- Vermont 11 counties
- Virginia 3 counties
- Washington 21 counties
- West Virginia 4 counties
- Wisconsin 39 counties
- Wyoming 7 counties
Growing traits
Values from the PLANTS characteristics record. “Not recorded” means PLANTS has no value; nothing here is estimated except the zone.
Growth
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Mature height
- 4.5 ft
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Shape
- Erect
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Active growth period
- Spring, Summer, Fall
Light and water
- Shade tolerance
- Intermediate (sun to part shade)
- Moisture use
- High water use
- Drought tolerance
- Low
- Tolerance of waterlogged soil
- Medium
- Precipitation range
- 16 to 60 in per year
Soil
- Soil textures
- Coarse, medium and fine
- pH range
- 4.7 to 7
- Lime (CaCO₃) tolerance
- Low
- Salinity tolerance
- None
- Fertility requirement
- Medium
- Minimum root depth
- 10 in
Climate
- Minimum temperature
- −38°F
- Estimated cold hardiness
- Zone 3b and warmer
- Minimum frost-free days
- 80
- Fire tolerance
- High
Flowers, leaves and fruit
- Flower color
- Yellow
- Showy flowers
- No
- Bloom period
- Mid Summer
- Foliage color
- Green
- Showy in fall
- No
- Keeps leaves
- No
- Fruit color
- Brown
Other
- Toxicity
- None
- Nitrogen fixation
- None
- Nursery availability
- No Known Source
- Family
- Poaceae
- PLANTS symbol
- CILA2
Source & data date
- Source
- USDA NRCS PLANTS Database: county distribution records, native status and plant characteristics. CC0 (public domain dedication, per the data.gov catalog record).
- Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP): native or introduced status by state. CC BY 3.0.
- USGS US-RIIS (ver. 2.0): species listed as introduced are excluded. CC0.
- Citation
- USDA, NRCS. 2026. The PLANTS Database (https://plants.usda.gov, 11/04/2026). National Plant Data Team, Greensboro, NC USA.
- Govaerts R. (ed.) (2026). WCVP: World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Data file dated 2026-06-04, http://sftp.kew.org/pub/data-repositories/WCVP/ (retrieved 2026-11-04). Paper: Govaerts R. et al. (2021) The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. Scientific Data 8, 215.
- Data date
- Retrieved from PLANTS on November 4, 2026; WCVP data file dated June 4, 2026.
- Scope
- Cinna latifolia (PLANTS symbol CILA2).
- Method
- A species is listed when it is recorded as native to the state in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in the county by USDA PLANTS. Species PLANTS labels both native and introduced are listed separately. Full method · All sources