Stipitate Cut Throat Grass

Panicum stipitatum Nash; Scribn. Bull. U. S. Dep. Agr
Agrost. 17: ed. 2. 56. 1901.
Panicum elongatum Fursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 69. 1814. Not P. elongatum Salisb. 1796. Panicum agrostoides elongatum Scribn. Bull. Tenn. Kxp. Sta. 7: 42. 1894.
Plants like P. agrostoides in habit, often purpletinged throughout; culms on the average stouter, strongly compressed; leaf-sheaths much overlapping; blades usually equaling or exceeding the terminal panicles, often scabrous on the lower surface; panicles usually several to a culm, sometimes as many as five axillary panicles, commonly dark-purple, short-exserted, 10-20 cm. long, one third to half as wide, densely flowered, the numerous stiff branches ascending, with numerous divaricate branchlets mostly from the lower side and beginning at the base, bearing crowded, subsecund spikelets, the short, scabrous pedicels only rarely with one or two erect hairs; spikelets 2.5-2.8 mm. long, about 0.7 mm. wide, often curved at the point; first glume about half the length of the spikelet; second glume and sterile lemma subequal, scabrous on the midnerve at the acuminate apex; fruit about 1.5 mm. long, about 0.6 mm. wide, shortstipitate.
Type locality: Delaware.
Distribution: Connecticut to Missouri, and south to South Carolina and Louisiana.