Tough, wiry, extensively stoloniferous perennial; culms slender, erect from a dense knotty crown, branching, 10-35 cm., rarely as much as 60 cm. high; lower-most sheaths very short, crowded, with reduced blades, the upper ones much shorter than the long internodes, glabrous, villous at the throat; blades flat or becoming involute, firm, stiffly ascending or spreading, 2-6 cm. long, 1-3 mm. wide, scabrous; staminate inflorescences 2-3 cm. long, scarcely exserted from the sheath, bearing 2-3 spikelets; spikelets 4-to 8-flowered; glumes acuminate, un-equal, the first sometimes much reduced, the second 4-5 mm. long; lemmas acute or acuminate, about 4 mm. long, glabrous; anthers 2 mm. long; pistillate inflo-rescences 2-3 together, not crowded; spikelets 15-25 mm. long, 2-to 4-flowered, slender, pointed, arcuate.
Home