Uniola paniculata L.

Stout, 1–2.5 m, from extensively creeping rhizomes; lf-blades 2–4 dm, mostly under 1 cm wide, broad-based, ± involute, attenuate into a long slender tip; infl 2–6 dm, rather crowded, or more open in age; spikelets ascending on stout pedicels, ovate or lance-ovate, 15–40 mm, 10–25-fld; glumes and the 3–5 sterile lemmas lance-linear, scarcely shorter than the lower fertile lemmas; lemmas lance-ovate, smooth or scaberulous on the keel, about equaling the palea; 2n=40. Coastal sands; se. Va. to Fla., Tex., Mex., and W.I.

Sandhills and drifting sands on the coast. Also found on salt flats. Typically found on the loose sands of upper beaches, and the more exposed and accreting areas of dunes such as foredunes and dune crests.

The seeds are cooked and eaten as a cereal.

Can be grown by cuttings, divisions or seedlings.