Eragrostis curtipedicellata Buckl.
Gummy Lovegrass

Habit: 		Tufted perennial, often in rather large colonies.
Culms: 		20-40 cm. tall, rigid, erect, tufted, with numerous sterile shoots, from a bulbous base.
Blades: 	5-20 cm. long, 1-4 mm. wide, scabrous above, flat or involute towards the apex,
		rather rigid.
Sheaths: 	Overlapping, pilose at the throat, the hairs 3-6 mm. long, often glandular viscid.
Ligule: 	A ring of short hairs.
Inflorescence: 	Panicle open, spreading, at first 15-20 cm. long, 5-10 cm. wide, the
		several short branches spikelet bearing to near the base, the axis and branches viscid,
		rather sparingly pilose in the axils, finally elongating and becoming a tumbleweed.
Spikelets: 	Linear or oblong, short-pedicelled, somewhat appressed on the branches,
		purplish or pale, 6-12-flowered, 3-6 cm. long; numerous, singly or in fascicles,
		the flowers perfect, the uppermost sterile; rachilla articulated but sometimes
		not disjointing until after the fall of the glumes and lemmas with the grain.
Glumes: 	2, unequal, about 1.5 and 2 mm. long, minutely scabrous on the keel.
Lemmas: 	Rather closely imbricate, 1.75 mm. long, with prominent lateral veins;
		3-nerved, usually broad, scabrous on the keel.
Palea: 		Shorter, about 1.5 mm. long, linear, obtuse, curved so that its 2 prominent,
		hispid nerves appear outside the lemma, persistent on the rachis.
Fruit: 		Grain 0.7 mm, long.
Habitat: 	Prairies, plains and open woods.  July-Sept.
Kansas Range:	Extreme south central.
Remarks: 	A rather large rigid panicle for the comparatively short culm.