Culms solitary, erect from short rhizomes, 6–10 dm; lower sheaths and base of the elongate blades villous; panicle on a peduncle 1–4 dm, much surpassing the short uppermost lf; racemes usually 2–4, erect or ascending, 5–10 cm, very loose or interrupted, the rachis very slender; spikelets elliptic, acutish, planoconvex, 3.3–4 mm; first glume often present, deltoid, to 1 mm; second glume and sterile lemma distinctly 5–7-veined. Dry pine woods; coastal plain from se. Va. to Fla. and Tex., and inland to Tenn. and Okla.
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