Melica mutica Walter

Culms 5–10 dm; sheaths scabrous or pilose; lf-blades 3 or 4, flat, the upper 10–20 cm × 2–5 mm; infl 1–2 dm, with 1–few spreading lower branches to 8 cm; spikelets short-pedicellate, pendulous, 7–11 mm; glumes nearly equal, oblong, 6.5–9 mm, nearly or quite equaling the lemmas; fertile lemmas 2, strongly nerved, about even with each other at the blunt tips; sterile lemmas ca 2 mm, obconic or hooded, surpassed by the fertile ones; 2n=18. Woods and banks; Md. to Ind. and Ill., s. to Fla. and Tex.