Chasmanthium latifolium

Wild Oats, Northern Sea Oats: A warm-season CA and North American native deciduous clumping grass that spreads slowly with wide flat blue-green bamboo-like foliage 2-3' tall. Graceful, arching, fluttering flowering stems 3-4' tall in mid-spring with nodding panicles of flattened silver green spikelets that resemble clusters of oats. Seedheads mature to a rich pale bronze color during the winter. Attracts birds. Great in containers or for dried flower arrangements. Full sun to part shade. Stays greener longer with less exposure. Low water. Seacoast, wind, heat, clay, sand and drought tolerant. Deer and rabbit resistant.