sea oats

noun

plural in form but singular or plural in construction

: a tall grass (Uniola paniculata) that has panicles resembling those of the oat, grows chiefly on the coast of the southern U.S., and is useful as a sand binder

also : a related plant (Chasmanthium latifolium synonym U. latifolia) chiefly of the eastern U.S.

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The shoreline here is wide and uncrowded, dotted with sand dunes and waving sea oats. —

Outside Online, 27 Aug. 2024 The mailbox, which surprisingly pops up from a landscape of sugar-white sand and sea oats swaying in the wind, creates a scene straight from a movie. —

Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 26 July 2024 With sea oats gently swaying in the salty breeze and the effortless expanse of the ocean, beaches are undeniably enchanting. —

Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 11 July 2024 Grasses, such as sea oats and seeded eucalyptus, can help fill out the arrangement. —

Michelle Brunner, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023 Crews then bury it in sand and allow the decomposing sea grass to feed the sea oats and build up sand dunes. —

Dennis Pillion | [email protected], al, 17 Mar. 2023 Those native plants include the Turk’s cap flower, the buttonbush and inland sea oats. —

Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2022 Most of the seedlings were sea oats, a hardy species that can be found all the way up the coast to New Jersey. —

Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2022 As morning glories and sea oats take root, dunes grow noticeably season to season. —

Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Sep. 2021