Northern Wood-oats / Northern Sea Oats (Chasmanthium latifolium)

A graceful native woodland grass from eastern North America, including parts of southern Ontario and the Great Lakes region. Northern wood-oats is best known for its distinctive flat, drooping seed heads that shimmer in the breeze and remain beautiful well into winter.

This shade-tolerant native thrives along forest edges, in open understories, and in moist woodland soils, where it helps stabilize ground layers and build living soil. The seeds provide food for birds, while the dense clumps offer shelter for beneficial insects and small wildlife.

An excellent choice for edible forest gardens, woodland edges, native shade gardens, and habitat restoration projects. In the right conditions, it can gently self-seed and form naturalistic drifts over time.

Easy to grow and very resilient once established.

Cold stratification: Cold stratification improves germination. Seeds can be sown outdoors in fall for natural winter stratification, or winter-sown in pots and left outside under snow. For spring sowing, provide 30–60 days of moist cold stratification in the refrigerator.
At least 75 seeds per packet