Paspalum pubiflorum var. glabrum Vasey.
Smoothseed Paspalum

Habit: 		Perennial.
Culms: 		Decumbent at the base, flattened, 40-100 cm. tall, rooting at the swollen dark,
		more or less hairy nodes.
Blades: 	Flat, usually 10-15 cm. long, 6-14 mm. wide, usually with a few stiff hairs at
		the rounded base.
Sheaths: 	Mostly shorter than the internodes, loose, brown-margined, at least the lower,
		sparsely papillose-pilose.
Ligule: 	Membranous, 1-3 mm. long.
Inflorescence: 	Of 3-5 (2-8) unilateral racemes, terminal on the primary culm or
		leafy branches, 2-10 cm. long, rather thick, erect or spreading, 1 cm. or more
		apart, with tufts of long hairs in the axils, rachis flat, 1.2-2 mm. wide, green,
		scabrous on the margins.
Spikelets: 	2.8-3.2 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, 1-flowered, planoconvex, nearly sessile,
		in pairs in two rows on one side of a flattened rachis, obovate, yellowish green, crowded.
Glumes: 	The first glume wanting, the second and sterile lemma subequal,
		3-5-nerved (in some specimens a few hairs on the glume).
Lemmas: 	Fertile lemma chartaceous-indurated, glabrous and shining, convex,
		with its back turned towards the rachis, margins inrolled.
Fruit: 		Pale, about 3 mm. long, 1-9 mm. wide, minutely striate.
Habitat: 	Moist ground, in woods or open banks.
Kansas Range:	Southeastern Kansas (Labette county).
Use: 		A palatable pasture grass, drought resistant.
Synonyms:	Paspalum pubiflorum Rupr. ex Fourn.
		Paspalum geminum Nash
		Paspalum laeviglume Scribn. ex Nash
		Paspalum pubiflorum Rupr. ex Fourn. var. glabrum Vasey ex Scribn.