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).