Pineland Dropseed

Sporobolus curtissii (Vasey) Small; Kearney, Bull. U. S. Dep Agr. Agrost. 1:24. 1895.
Sporobolus floridanus var. Curtissii Vasey; Beal, Grasses N. Am. 2: 290. 1896.
Perennial; culms densely cespitose, slender, erect, glabrous, without nodes above the base, 30-70 cm. tall; sheaths glabrous, somewhat keeled, the uppermost very long; ligule very short; blades slender, rather stiff, flexuous, flat or involute, glabrous, stiffly pilose on the upper surface near the base, 15-30 cm. long, 0.5-1 mm. wide, the culm-blade short; panicles pyramidal, open, 7-20 cm. long, the axis glabrous or slightly scabrous, the branches rather stiffly ascending, solitary or in twos, pilose in the lower axils with a few long hairs, rather distant, the lower 4—7 cm. long; spikelcts appressed along the main branches, usually not overlapping, longer than the pedicels, brownish, glabrous, about 4.5 mm. long; glumes about equal, acuminate, as long as or longer than the lemma and palea.
Type locality: Florida (Curtiss).
Distribution: Dry pine barrens, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida.