Poa chapmaniana Scribn. Chapman Bluegrass Habit: Densely tufted annual, more erect in habit than P. annua, drying pale or tawny. Culms: Terete, mostly erect, 10-30 cm. high. Blades: 1-4 cm. long, 1-1.5 mm. wide, flat or folded, ending in a boat-shaped tip. Sheaths: Longer or shorter than the internodes, mostly at the base of the culm, close. Ligule: 1-2 mm. long, truncate. Inflorescence: Panicle oblong, 3-8 cm. long, the branches ascending or spreading, spikelet bearing on the outer half. Spikelets: 2.5-4 mm. long, 3-7-flowered, flat, the rachis articulate between the flowers, and above the glumes, the uppermost floret reduced or rudimentary. Glumes: 2, unequal, 2 and 2.5 mm. long, keeled, 3-nerved, or the first 1-nerved. Lemmas: About 2.5 mm. long, 3 nerved (intermediate nerves obscure), the median and marginal nerves pubescent below; keeled, acute or obtuse, awnless, cobwebby at the base. Palea: Shorter than the lemma, 2-keeled and 2-nerved. Stamens: Anthers 0.1-0.2 mm. long. Habitat: Dry soil, in open ground or cultivated fields. April-May. Kansas Range: Shawnee county