Description:
Vegetative collections were made at Pottawatomie Co., Kansas and Woodward Co., Oklahoma and planted adjacent to each other at the Plant Materials Center, Manhattan, Kansas. Over the past 18 years the two accessions have commingled to become what is now one accession. 'Southwind' has been extensively evaluated in replicated and nonreplicated plantings. Advantages over existing cultivars are improved adaptation, plant vigor, and rate of spread. Present common reed cultivars are adapted only as far north as Oklahoma. The full range of adaptability of 'Southwind' outisde of Kansas is inconclusive. Plantings indicated survival and adaptation to the southern half of Nebraska.