Cinna arundinacea

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Distribution Map: Based on vouchered plant specimens only. View county names by placing the mouse cursor over a particular county.

Species Distribution Map
Family:POACEAE
Species:Cinna arundinacea L.
Common Name:Sweet Wood Reed; Common Wood Reed; Stout Wood Reed
Habitat:**
Associated Ecological Communities:**
Growth Habit:Herb
Duration:Perennial
Category:Vascular
USDA Symbol:**
Plant Notes:Sweet Wood Reed is a native perennial herb in the Grass family (Poaceae). It can be found in the eastern half of Alabama Sweet Wood Reed grows in moist hardwood forest, along streams, and in swamp forests. It is a perennial from short rhizomes. The stems are erect, solitary or in small clumps, glabrous, and 3-4 feet in height. The stems often have a some-what bulbous base. Leaf sheaths are glabrous. The leaves are alternate, lanceolate, flat, glabrous, with scabrous margins. Flowers are produced in terminal, erect to spreading, branched panicles. Spikelets are laterally compressed and have one floret. The lemma has one vein and the upper glume has 3 prominent veins. The fruit is a grain. Sweet Wood Reed is sometimes available from native plant nurseries. It prefers moist to wet loamy soils in full sun to partial shade.—A. Diamond.
Taxonomic Notes:**
Status:Native
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Specimen: View specimen details in the Alabama Herbarium Consortium Specimen Database

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Classification

FamilyPOACEAE - Grass family
Genus Cinna
Species Cinna arundinacea L. - Sweet Wood Reed; Common Wood Reed; Stout Wood Reed

Citation

Citation Cinna arundinacea Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 5. 1753.
Basionym: **
Type: Without data, (neotype: 15.1). Neotypified by Hitchcock in Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 12 : 115. 1908.

** Not applicable or data not available.

Synonyms

SynonymFull CitationBasionymType
Cinna arundinacea var. inexpansa    

Specimens and Distribution

This species has been reported in the following counties by the herbaria listed. An overview of the individual specimens are provided in the table that follows. Click on the accession number to view details; click on column headers to sort; choose a county or herbaria to filter the specimen data.

Counties included on distribution map: Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun, Clay, Cleburne, Coosa, Elmore, Etowah, Jackson, Jefferson, Lee, Marshall, Montgomery, Winston

Counties represented by specimen data listed below:

Herbaria represented by specimen data listed below: ALNHS, AUA, JSU, TROY, UNA, UWAL

Range of years during which specimens were collected: 1896 - 1896

Barcode / Accession No. County Coll. Date Collector &
Collection No.		 Herbarium &
Herbarium Name Used		 Image
ALNHS00004562 Jackson 31 Aug 2016 Barger, T. Wayne
SP#2454		 ALNHS
Cinna arundinacea L.
JSU108245 Clay 18 Aug 1993 Ballard, J. Mark
3254		 JSU
Cinna arundinacea Linnaeus
JSU108243 Calhoun 04 Sep 1994 Spaulding, Daniel D.
6630		 JSU
Cinna arundinacea Linnaeus
TROY000011808 Barbour 25 Oct 2003 Kral, Robert
94656		 TROY
Cinna arundinacea Linnaeus
AUA000033402 Cleburne 5 Sep 2015 Spaulding, Daniel D.
14418		 AUA
Cinna Arundinacea L.
JSU108248 Jefferson 22 Aug 1985 Barber, J. Patrick
1662		 JSU
Cinna arundinacea Linnaeus
UWAL0015167 Bullock 14 Sep 2012 Dykes, Bailee
1232		 UWAL
Cinna arundinacea Linnaeus
UWAL0034108 Cleburne 05 Sep 2015 Spaulding, Daniel D.
14418		 UWAL
Cinna arundinacea L.
JSU156469 Clay 02 Sep 1994 Ballard, J. Mark
4835		 JSU
Cinna arundinacea Linnaeus
TROY000011810 Montgomery 19 Sep 2004 Diamond, Alvin R.
14710		 TROY
Cinna arundinacea Linnaeus
UNA00064345 Montgomery 19 Sep 2004 Diamond, Alvin R.
14710		 UNA
Cinna arundinacea L.
JSU108244 Clay 18 Aug 1993 Ballard, J. Mark
3254		 JSU
Cinna arundinacea Linnaeus
JSU108250 Marshall 02 Aug 1993 Spaulding, Daniel D.
4334		 JSU
Cinna arundinacea Linnaeus
JSU108246 Clay 06 Sep 1993 Ballard, J. Mark
3318		 JSU
Cinna arundinacea Linnaeus
TROY000037685 Bullock 14 Sep 2012 Dykes, Bailee
1232		 TROY
Cinna arundinacea Linnaeus
AUA000030260 Lee 11 Sep 2015 Taylor, Chris T.
CSP-138		 AUA
Cinna Arundinacea L.
UWAL0042488 Bullock 27 Aug 2017 Horne, Howard E.
4154		 UWAL
Cinna arundinacea L.
UWAL0038105 Coosa 17 Sep 2017 Spaulding, Daniel D.
15023		 UWAL
Cinna arundinacea L.
ALNHS00000884 Jackson 27 Aug 2009 Barger, T. Wayne
HC-474		 ALNHS
Cinna arundinacea L.
AUA000015923 Elmore 5 May 1959 Banks, Donald J.
 AUA
Cinna Arundinacea L.
JSU108247 Jackson 11 Sep 1994 Spaulding, Daniel D.
6291		 JSU
Cinna arundinacea Linnaeus
UNA00003667 Clay 27 Jul 1896 Mohr, Charles
s.n.		 UNA
Cinna arundinacea L.
UNA00060875 Bullock 28 Sep 2003 Diamond, Alvin R.
14193		 UNA
Cinna arundinacea L.
TROY000011809 Bullock 04 Sep 2003 Diamond, Alvin R.
14105		 TROY
Cinna arundinacea Linnaeus
JSU108249 Marshall 11 Sep 1992 Spaulding, Daniel D.
3073		 JSU
Cinna arundinacea Linnaeus
AUA000015924 Montgomery 19 Sep 2004 Diamond, Alvin R.
14710		 AUA
Cinna Arundinacea L.
AUA000015922 Bullock 28 Sep 2003 Diamond, Alvin R.
14193		 AUA
Cinna Arundinacea L.
UNA00003677 Clay s.d. Smith, Eugene A.
s.n.		 UNA
Cinna arundinacea L.
JSU108251 Winston 15 Oct 1975 Whetstone, R. David
7081		 JSU
Cinna arundinacea Linnaeus
UWAL0013641 Butler 01 Sep 2013 Diamond, Alvin R.
24490		 UWAL
Cinna arundinacea Linnaeus
TROY000039198 Butler 01 Sep 2013 Diamond, Alvin R.
24490		 TROY
Cinna arundinacea Linnaeus
JSU156419 Etowah 14 Aug 1994 Hodge, Lesley M.
3057		 JSU
Cinna arundinacea Linnaeus
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