Leersia virginica Willd.
Whitegrass

Habit: 		Perennial, with clusters of very scaly rhizomes much stouter than the culm base.
Culms: 		Slender, weak, 30-120 cm. tall, much branched, straggling, the nodes conspicuous, pubescent.
Blades: 	Leaf-blades 5-15 cm. long, 2-15 mm. wide, flat, narrowed towards the base, thin, scabrous.
Sheaths: 	Mostly shorter than the internodes, flattened, smooth to rough.
Ligule: 	Membranous, about 2 mm. long.
Inflorescence: 	Terminal panicles open, 10-20 cm. long, with stiff spreading capillary branches,
		the axillary panicles more or less included and cleistogamous.
Spikelets: 	Flat, 2.5-3 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, closely appressed, 1-flowered, disarticulating
		from the pedicels, perfect, but those in the open panicles usually sterile,
		those enclosed in the sheaths cleistogamous and fruitful.
Glumes: 	Wanting.
Lemmas: 	Hispid at least on the keel and margins, boatshaped, curving to one side,
		becoming concave next to the axis to which it is appressed, awnless, clasping the palea
		by a pair of strong marginal nerves.
Palea: 		Hispid on the keel, much narrower, 1-nerved.
Stamens: 	2.
Fruit: 		Grain.
Habitat: 	Swamps, stream banks, low woods, and moist places.  August-September.
Kansas Range:	East three fourths.
Use: 		Often planted around fish ponds.