Digitaria filiformis (L.)
Slender Fingergrass

Habit: 		Tufted annual.
Culms: 		Slender or almost filiform, 10-60 cm. tall, usually tufted, branching and leafy at the base.
Blades: 	3-20 cm. long, 1-4 mm. wide, flat, glabrous beneath, papillose-hirsute above near the base.
Sheaths: 	Lower pilose or the uppermost glabrous.
Ligule: 	Erose membrane.
Inflorescence: 	Slender spikelike racemes 1-5, unequal, 2-10 cm. long, erect or ascending, somewhat distinct,
		not fascicled, rachis 3-angled, scabrous on the angles, not winged, flexuous.
Spikelets: 	Nearly planoconvex, 1.5-7 mm. long, mostly in 3's, appressed, on one side of the triangular rachis,
		the second and third on slender flexuous pedicels, 1-flowered, lanceolate-elliptic.
Glumes: 	First wanting, the second 3-nerved, three fourths to as long as the 7-nerved, sterile lemma,
		densely or sparsely villous between the nerves with white gland-tipped hairs.
Lemmas: 	Sterile lemma densely or sparsely villous between the nerves with white gland-tipped hairs,
		7-nerved; fertile lemma dark brown, slightly apiculate, cartilaginous, papillose-striate, with a hyaline
		margin not inrolled.
Palea: 		Enclosed in the lemma.
Fruit: 		About as long as the spikelet, chestnut-brown, acute, striate.
Habitat: 	Sandy soil or sterile open ground.  July-September.
Kansas Range:	East third.
Synonyms:	Digitaria laeviglumis Fern.