Erect, slender, tufted perennial 4–8 dm; lvs mostly crowded near the base, the blades elongate, 2–5 mm wide, tapering to a fine point; infl ovoid, two-thirds as long as the whole shoot, the scabrous branches pilose in the axils, spreading or eventually reflexed, with relatively few, scattered spikelets in the distal half; spikelets 5–16 mm, 10–28-fld, often purplish, short-pediceled, strongly ascending or appressed to the branches; first glume 0.9–1.7 mm, the second 1.4–1.8 mm; lemmas 1.6–1.9 mm, compressed-keeled and evidently 3-veined, persistent, the rachilla eventually fragmenting; grain 0.5–0.9 mm, half as thick. Moist or wet, sandy or muddy soil along the coast; Del. to Fla. and Tex.
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