Festuca obtusa Spreng. Nodding Fescue Habit: Erect perennial, usually tufted, rather dark-green plant. Culms: 40-100 cm. tall, solitary of few in a tuft. Blades: Flat, 10-30 cm. long, 4-7 mm. wide, rough above. Sheaths: Much shorter than the internodes, glabrous or pubescent. Ligule: Very short. Inflorescence: Panicle 10-25 cm. long, very loose, and more or less nodding, branches spikelet-bearing near the ends. Spikelets: 4-7 mm. long, 3-5 flowered; the flowers perfect or the upper ones staminate, the rachilla articulates between the flowers. Glumes: 2, firm, scabrous on the keel, the first 1-nerved, 2.5-3 mm. long, the second 3-nerved, 3.5-4 mm. long. Lemmas: Firm, rather swollen, about 4 mm. long, obtuse or acutish, the nerves obscure. Palea: A little shorter than the lemma, 2-keeled. Fruit: Grain. Habitat: Low or rocky woods. June-August. Kansas Range: East two fifths.