Andropogon ligulatus (Stapf) Clayton

Tufted perennial; culms 30–100 cm. high.. Leaf blades narrow, 10–25 cm. long, 1–2 mm. wide, the tip finely attenuate; ligule membranous, 1.5–3 mm. long.. Inflorescence of paired (rarely up to 4) racemes, usually 2–4 pairs forming a scanty false panicle, this sometimes reduced to a single pair; racemes 4–9 cm. long, loose, ± plumose; internodes and pedicels filiform, arcuate, 4–6 mm. long, villous to plumose with hairs 2–5 mm. long.. Sessile spikelet 5.5–7 mm. long, including a cuneate callus up to 1 mm. long; lower glume narrowly lanceolate, concave, nerveless or obscurely 2-nerved between the keels, glabrous, wingless; upper glume acute or with an awn-point up to 1 mm. long; upper lemma bilobed for 1/3–1/2 its length, with a geniculate awn 10–15 mm. long.. Pedicelled spikelet well developed, narrowly lanceolate, 5–7 mm. long, with or without an awn-point up to 1 mm. long.