Indian Woodoats (Chasmanthium latifolium)

Family: Poaceae or Gramineae | Edibility: Edible (1/5)

Main Bloom Time: Late summer, Mid summer. Form: Upright or erect.

Edible Parts & Harvest Seasons

Edible Parts: Nuts/Seeds

Harvest Seasons: Fall, Late Summer

Flavor & Culinary Uses

Seed - cooked. It can be used as a cereal in making bread, biscuits etc, or can be ground into a flour and used as a mush. A food crop of the Cocopa Indians of Mexico. — It can be used as a cereal in making bread, biscuits etc, or can be ground into a flour and used as a mush.; A food crop of the Cocopa Indians of Mexico.

Habitat & North American Range

Moist fertile woodlands. Along stream and river banks and in rich deciduous woods. (Zone 4, Zone 5, Zone 6, Zone 7, Zone 8, Zone 9, Zone 10)