Dichanthelium latifolium L.
Wideleaf Dichanthelium

Habit: 		Tufted perennial from a knotted crown.
Culms: 		45-100 cm. tall, glabrous or rarely sparsely pubescent below, nodes glabrous,
		spreading and branched from the middle nodes.
Blade: 		8-10 cm. long, 1.5-4 cm. wide, ciliate toward the very broad clasping base,
		otherwise glabrous, rarely minutely pubescent.
Sheath: 	Glabrous, except the ciliate margin and pubescent ring at the summit.
Ligule: 	About 1 mm. long.
Inflorescence: 	Panicle 7-15 cm. long, with long, few-flowered ascending branches.
Spikelet:	 3.4-3.7 mm. long, obovate-elliptic, pubescent, except at the tip, rather
		turgid, 7-9-nerved.
Glumes: 	First about half the length of the spikelet.
Autumnal form:	More or less spreading, branching from the middle nodes, the upper
		leaves of the branches crowded and spreading, not much reduced.
Habitat: 	Rocky or sandy woods.  July-August.
Kansas Range:	East sixth.
Synonyms:	Panicum latifolium L.