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