Munroa squarrosa (Nutt.) Torr.
Falsebuffalograss

Habit:		Low spreading, much branched annual, forming mats as much as 50 cm. in diameter.
Culms:		10-20 cm. long, the internodes of the prostrate culms scabrous, the fascicles
		at the nodes consisting of several short leafy branches, with 1 or 2 longer branches
		with slender internodes, rooting at the nodes.
Blades:		Short, crowded at the nodes and at the ends of the branches, 1-3 cm. long,
		1-3 mm. wide. stiff, spreading, scabrous, pungent.
Sheaths:	Crowded at the nodes and ends of branches, pilose at the throat, often
		ciliate on the margins, loose, soon becoming papery, inflated.
Ligule:		A ring of short hairs about 1 mm. long.
Inflorescence:	Spikes very short.
Spikelets:	In pairs or threes, 2-4-flowered, few. almost sessile in the axils of the
		leaves and almost concealed in the leaf-rosettes, rachilla disarticulating above
		the glumes and between the florets.
Glumes:	Of the lower 1 or 2 spikelets equal, 1-nerved, narrow, acute, a little
		shorter than the lemmas, those of the upper spikelet unequal, the first much
		shorter or obsolete.
Lemmas:	5-7 mm. long. a tuft of hairs on each side near the middle, 3-nerved,
		those of the lower spikelet coriaceous, acuminate, the points spreading,
		the midnerve extending into a mucro, those of the upper spikelet membranous.
Palea:		Hyaline, narrow. 2-nerved, enclosing the grain.
Fruit:		Grain oval, dorsally compressed.
Habitat:		Dry plains and hills at medium altitudes; most common in old fields
		and recently disturbed soil.  August-October.
Kansas Range:	West half and Cherokee county.