Paspalum laeve  var. circulare (Nash) Fern.
Roundseed Paspalum

Paspalum laeve  var.  pilosum Scribn.
Field Paspalum

Habit: 		Perennial, tufted in dense leafy clumps.
Culms: 		Compressed, 30-80 cm. tall, densely tufted, with erect or ascending leafy
		shoots at the base.
Blades: 	Flat, 15-30 cm. long, 5-10 mm. wide, mostly erect, scarcely narrowed
		towards the base, often equaling or exceeding the inflorescence, glabrous to
		sparsely pilose on the upper surface, usually glabrous on the lower.
Sheaths: 	Longer than the internodes, elongated and crowded at the base,
		flattened, thin, loose, glabrous or especially the lower sparsely
		papillose-pilose with ascending hairs for var. circulare and
		strongly pilose in var. pilosum.
Ligule: 	Membranous, brown, 2-3 mm. long.
Inflorescence: 	Commonly 3-4 (2-7) racemes erect or ascending, 5-12 cm. long,
		rachis about 1 mm. wide, long-pilose at the base.
Spikelets: 	1-flowered, planoconvex, nearly orbicular for var. circulare (>2.7 mm dia.)
		and broadly elliptic in var. pilosum (<2.7 mm dia,), spikelets in pairs in two
		rows on one side of a flattened rachis.
Glumes: 	First glume wanting, the second and sterile lemma equal, covering the fruit,
		5-nerved, rather thin, showing cells, the lemma often with an oval brownish spot.
Fertile lemmas:	Papery with its back turned towards the rachis, margins of the lemma inrolled.
Fruit: 		Nearly the size and shape of the spikelet.
Habitat: 	Fields, meadows and open moist waste ground.
Kansas Range:	Southeast (Cherokee county).