Tufted, slender, 3–8 dm; lvs short, usually hairy (at least the lower), the upper sometimes merely scaberulous, the main ones 2–5 mm wide; infl slender to diffuse, never spike-like, often with spreading branches to 10 cm; spikelets 2.5–4 mm; glumes subequal, 1.5–3.5 mm, the first one blunt, wider than in the other spp., 0.2–0.5 mm wide in side-view and 1/3–2/3 the width of the second glume; second glume 0.5–1 wide in side-view, widest near the blunt tip; lemmas oval, blunt to acute, rarely short-awned, the first 2–3.5 mm, smooth to scabrous, the second smaller, very scabrous; anthers 1.2–1.6 mm; 2n=14. Dry or moist woods and hillsides; Mass. to Mich. and Ill., s. to n. Fla., Mo., and Tex.
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