Dichanthelium wilcoxianum (Vasey) Freckman
Wilcox Dichanthelium

Habit: 		Tufted perennial.
Culms: 		10-25 cm. tall, erect, copiously papillose-pilose, nodes not bearded or obscurely so.
Blades: 	Erect, 5-8 cm. long, 3-6 mm. wide, usually involute-acuminate, pubescent with long hairs (papillose-hirsute).
Sheaths: 	Papillose-pilose, overlapping.
Ligule: 	Inconspicuous, 1 mm. long.
Inflorescence: 	Panicle finally exserted, 2-5 cm. long, about half as wide, rather densely flowered, branches ascending.
Spikelets: 	2.7-3 mm. long, oblong-obovate, papillose-pubescent.
Glumes: 	First about one third as long as the spikelet, second hardly covering the fruit.
Autumnal form:	Branching from all nodes, forming bushy tufts with rigid, erect leaves much overtopping the
		reduced panicles.
Habitat: 	Prairies and plains.  June-July.
Kansas Range:	Central (Republic, Riley and Pottawatomie counties).
Synonyms:	Panicum wilcoxianum Vasey
		Panicum wilcoxianum Vasey var. breitungii Boivin