Culms tufted, 3–10 dm, often branched above, mostly glabrous below, the short uppermost internodes densely villous at the summit; lvs flat, 3–4 mm wide, the upper usually crowded, broader (even to 15 mm) and spathe-like, brownish or coppery, 8–15 cm; racemes numerous, paired, 3–5 cm, white-villous, usually flexuous; sessile spikelet three-fourths as long as the sterile pedicel andshorter than the internode next above it; awn 1–2 cm, loosely twisted below; 2n=20. Fields and open woods; N.J. to O. and Mo., s. to Fla. and Tex. Variable, but the vars. not well defined. (A. elliottii,misapplied)
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