Dichanthelium acuminatum var. lindheimeri Nash.
Lindheimer Dichanthelium

Habit: 		Tufted perennial.
Culms: 		Ascending or spreading, 3-100 cm. tall, glabrous or pubescent below, elongate
		and spreading in autumn, with the early branches long, the later ones in short tufts;
		nodes swollen, pubescent especially the lower.
Blades: 	5-8 cm. long, 6-8 mm. wide, glabrous, ascending, often reflexed when old,
		with a few hairs on the margins at base, glabrous on both surfaces, or minutely
		puberulent below.
Sheaths: 	Much shorter than the internodes, ciliate on the margins, otherwise
		glabrous or the lowermost ascending-pubescent.
Ligule: 	Dense hairs, 4-5 mm. long.
Inflorescence: 	Panicle 4-7 cm. long, nearly as wide, branches ascending or spreading,
		loosely flowered, naked at base.
Spikelets: 	1.4-1.6 mm. long, about 0.9 mm. wide, obovate, obtuse; 1-2-flowered, turgid,
		pubescent, the pedicels about as long as the spikelets, or the terminal longer.
Glumes: 	First about one fourth as long as the spikelet, obtuse, the second and sterile
		lemma scarcely equaling the fruit at maturity, about 7-nerved.
Fruit: 		1.3-1.4 mm. long, 0.8 mm. wide, elliptic, obtuse, grain free within the rigid
		firmly closed lemma and palea.
Autumnal form:	Usually stiffly spreading or radiate-prostrate, internodes elongated,
		with tufts of short appressed branches at the nodes; blades reduced, involute-pointed
		and often conspicuously ciliate at the base.
Habitat: 	Dry sandy or sterile woods and open places.  June-September.
Kansas Range:	Southeast (Labette county).
Synonyms:	Panicum acuminatum Sw. var. lindheimeri (Nash) Lelong
		Panicum lanuginosum Ell. var. lindheimeri (Nash) Fern.
		Panicum lanuginosum Ell. var. septentrionale (Fern.) Fern.
		Panicum lindheimeri Nash