Slender, tufted, usually perennial, 2–10 dm, often finely pubescent below; lvs very slender, usually less than 2 mm wide, with strongly involute margins, the lower with short sheath and long blade (10–)15–45 cm, the upper with longer sheath and shorter blade; panicle slender, with few ascending branches; spikelets 3–4 mm; glumes spreading at maturity, the first narrow, usually less than 0.2 mm wide in side-view, the second much wider, 1.5–3.5 × 0.5–0.8 mm, truncate; first lemma oval, 1.8–3.2 mm, scaberulous distally, acute or short-awned, the second shorter, scaberulous, occasionally short-awned; anthers 1–2 mm; 2n=14. Sandy soil in pine woods; se. Va. to Fla., Tenn., and e. Tex.
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