Perennial; culms 60 cm. to more than 1 m. long, branching, straggling, rooting at the lower nodes; sheaths glabrous or papillose-pilose, the margins ciliate at least toward the summit, the collar densely pubescent; blades 4-15 cm. long, 10-30 mm. wide, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, usually asymmetrical, sparsely pilose or more or less softly pubescent, the margins very scabrous; panicles 10-20 cm. long, the branches ascending or spreading, naked in the lower half or two-thirds, densely pilose in the axils; spikelets short-pedicellate, appressed to the branchlets, appear-ing more or less clustered, 2 mm. long, obovate, obtuse, glabrous or sparsely papillose-hispid, the first glume rather narrow, acute or subobtuse, half to three-fourths as long as the spikelet.
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