Panicum dewinteri J.G.Anderson

Perennial, tufted (erect, sometimes rooting at lower nodes), up to 1 m high, shrub-like. Leaf blades (young leaves) 200-500 mm long, 1-6 mm wide. Culms hard and wiry, well branched, particularly in upper portion, leaf blades of older portion of culms falling off early. Spikelets 3.5-4.0 mm long. Inflorescence sparsely branched with secondary branches appressed; lower glume narrowly ovate, 3-nerved, two-thirds the length of spikelet; upper glume and lower lemma 5-7-nerved; lower floret sterile, with palea reduced; female-fertile (upper) lemma pale to light brown, shiny.