Coastal small-reed
Calamagrostis pseudophragmites
Synonyms: Calamagrostis rariflora, Calamagrostis pallida, Calamagrostis dubia, Arundo effusa, Calamagrostis laxa, Calamagrostis transsylvanica, Calamagrostis pseudophragmites subvar. exserta, Calamagrostis variflora, Calamagrostis pseudophragmites var. parviflora, Calamagrostis pseudophragmites var. dubia, Calamagrostis pseudophragmites var. normalis, Calamagrostis pseudophragmites f. abbreviata, Calamagrostis persica, Calamagrostis pseudophragmites f. flavescens, Calamagrostis pseudophragmites var. grandiflora, Calamagrostis pseudophragmites var. minor, Arundo littorea, Calamagrostis pseudophragmites var. tartarica, Calamagrostis littorea, Calamagrostis nepalensis, Calamagrostis littorea var. abbreviata, Arundo alpestris, Calamagrostis glauca var. latifolia, Calamagrostis littorea var. montana, Calamagrostis tartarica, Arundo pseudophragmites var. maior, Calamagrostis phragmitoides var. rariflora, Calamagrostis littorea var. annulata, Arundo pseudophragmites var. major, Calamagrostis lanceolata var. armena, Calamagrostis phragmitoides var. robusta, Calamagrostis rubella, Calamagrostis dubia var. hirta, Calamagrostis pseudophragmites var. laxa, Calamagrostis littorea var. maior, Calamagrostis pseudophragmites subsp. persica, Calamagrostis littorea var. major, Calamagrostis laxa var. transsilvanica, Calamagrostis littorea f. abbreviata, Calamagrostis pseudophragmites subsp. dubia, Calamagrostis pseudophragmites var. stepposa, Calamagrostis littorea var. tartarica, Calamagrostis epigejos var. reichenbachiana, Arundo littorea var. major, Arundo laxa, Calamagrostis pseudophragmites subsp. tartarica, Calamagrostis pseudophragmites var. ladyginii, Calamagrostis onaei, Arundo annulata, Arundo biebersteiniana, Arundo glauca var. angustifolia, Calamagrostis littorea var. persica, Calamagrostis pseudophragmites var. rariflora, Calamagrostis glauca, Calamagrostis pseudophragmites var. pallida, Calamagrostis pseudophragmites var. robusta, Calamagrostis hedinii, Calamagrostis littorea var. elongata, Arundo sabuli, Arundo pseudophragmites, Calamagrostis littorea var. laxa, Calamagrostis robusta, Arundo glauca
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Botanical Description
Calamagrostis pseudophragmites, the coastal small-reed or eastern feathergrass, is a rhizomatous perennial grass in the Poaceae reaching 60 to 150 cm tall, forming loose tufts from long, creeping rhizomes. Stems (culms) are smooth and erect, bearing flat to involute, scabrous, grey-green leaf blades 3 to 8 mm wide and up to 30 cm long, with elongate membranous ligules 4 to 12 mm long. The inflorescence is a soft, dense, oblong to pyramidal silvery panicle 15 to 25 cm long, pale green to purplish when young and fading to straw-coloured; spikelets are one-flowered, 4 to 7 mm long, with a tuft of long, white callus hairs roughly twice the length of the lemma that gives the panicle its conspicuous feathery aspect. The species occupies sandy and gravelly riverbanks, alluvial flats, lakeshores, and coastal dunes across temperate Eurasia, often colonizing freshly disturbed alluvium.
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Traditional American Uses
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