Muhlenbergia schreberi Gmel.
Nimblewill

Habit: 		Perennial, usually rooting at the lower nodes, but not forming definite creeping rhizomes.
Culms: 		Slender, erect or ascending from a decumbent base, usually rooting at the lower nodes,
		diffusely much branched, flowering branches 10-30 cm. tall.
Blades: 	Flat, 3-9 cm. long, 2-4 mm. wide, slightly narrowed towards the base,
		spreading or ascending, scabrous.
Ligule: 	Membranous, fringed, very short.
Inflorescence: 	Panicles numerous, terminal and axillary, slender, 5-15 cm. long,
		2-5 mm. thick, lax, rather loosely flowered, axillary panicles usually included at the base.
Spikelets: 	Spikelets (excluding the awn) 2 mm. long, 1-flowered, flower perfect,
		narrow, appressed on short scabrous pedicels usually 1-2 mm. long, rachilla
		disarticulating above the glumes.
Glumes: 	First glume obsolete or nearly so, the second minute, 0.1-0.2 mm. long,
		rounded or truncate, less than one fourth as long as the lemma.
Lemmas: 	Narrow, membranous, 3-nerved, sparsely hairy below, very scabrous especially
		on the nerves and margins, exclusive of the awn about 2 mm. long, tapering
		into a slender scabrous, straight awn 2-5 mm. long.
Palea: 		Thin, nearly as long as its lemma, acute, lanceolate.
Habit: 		Damp, shady places.  August-September.
Kansas Range:	East half.
Remarks: 	In spring and early summer the stems short and erect with spreading blades.
Synonyms:	Muhlenbergia palustris Scribn.
		Muhlenbergia schreberi J.F. Gmel. var. palustris (Scribn.) Scribn.