Panicum dichotomiflorum Michx. Fall Panicum Habit: Somewhat succulent, branching annual. Culms: Spreading or ascending from a decumbent base, 50-100 cm. or more long, compressed, somewhat fleshy, freely branching, usually smooth throughout, thick, succulent, drying furrowed, at least the lower nodes swollen. Blades: Flat or sometimes folded, 10-50 cm. long, 3-20 mm. wide, sometimes sparsely pilose on the upper surface, the white midrib usually prominent. Sheaths: Usually longer than the internodes, somewhat flattened, loose, ciliate above. Ligule: A dense ring of white hairs 1-2 mm. long. Inflorescence: Panicles terminal and axillary, mostly included at base, 10-40 cm. long or more, diffuse, the main branches ascending, the short branchlets appressed, bearing short-pediceled, often rather crowded spikelets. Spikelets: Usually about 2.5 mm. (2-3.2_ long, narrowly oblong-ovate, acute, short pediceled, greenish-purple, glabrous. Glumes: First usually less than one-fourth the length of the spikelet, truncate or broadly triangular, 1-3-nerved, the second and sterile lemma about equal, somewhat pointed beyond the fruit, rather faintly 7-nerved, the palea of the sterile lemma nearly equal to the fruit or wanting. Fruit: About 2 mm. long, 0.8 mm. wide, elliptic, smooth and shining. Habitat: Wet soil, fields, and waste places, weedy. July-September. Kansas Range: East five sixths. Synonyms: Panicum dichotomiflorum Michx. var. dichotomiflorum Panicum dichotomiflorum Michx. var. geniculatum (Wood) Fern.