Chloris virgata Swartz.
Showy Chloris

Habit: 		Annual, tufted.
Culms: 		40-60-90 cm. tall, ascending to spreading from a decumbent base, branching at the base and lower nodes,
		sometimes rooting at the nodes.
Blades: 	2-7 mm. wide, flat, rough above and below and on the margins, very sparsely long hairy, papillose
		at the base.
Sheaths: 	Compressed-keeled, shorter than the internodes, often a few hairs at the throat.
Ligule: 	Membranous, about 1 mm. long.
Inflorescence: 	Spikes 7-16, aggregate at the summit of the culms, included at the base or exserted; sessile,
		erect or somewhat spreading, 2-8 cm. long, pale green or tawny, feathery or silky, the slender,
		scabrous rachis spikelet bearing to the base.
Spikelets: 	Crowded, without the awns 2.5-4 mm. long, flattened, 2-flowered, the lower fertile, the upper
		staminate or reduced to a sterile lemma, rachilla disarticulating above the glumes and prolonged
		behind the palea.
Glumes: 	1-nerved, slightly scabrous on the keel, lanceolate, membranous, first 1.5-2 mm. long,
		acute or obtuse, the second 3-3.5 mm. long, awn-pointed.
Lemmas: 	Exclusive of the awn 3.5 mm. long, 3-5-nerved, flattened, somewhat humpbacked on the keel,
		long ciliate on the back or margins, the mid-nerve nearly always prolonged into a slender scabrous awn,
		5-10 mm. long.
Palea: 		2-keeled, about equaling its lemma, oblanceolate, abruptly acute, the margins folded inwards.
Rudiments: 	Narrowly cuneate, truncate, the awn as long as that of the lemma.
Fruit: 		Grain free within the lemma and palea.
Habitat: 	Sandy soil, open ground, fields and waste places.
Kansas Range:	Reno county.
Remarks: 	Weedy.