Polypogon monspeliensis (L.).
Rabbitfoot Polypogon

Habit: 		Annual.
Culms: 		Mostly 15-50 cm. tall, erect or decumbent at the base, sparingly branched, usually tufted.
Blades: 	Flat, 4-15 cm. long, 3-10 mm. wide, acuminate, scabrous especially above.
Sheaths: 	Nearly as long as the internodes, upper somewhat inflated, loose.
Ligule: 	4-6 mm. long, membranous.
Inflorescence: 	A dense, contracted, spikelike panicle 2-15 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, tawny yellow,
		when mature, sometimes interrupted below, soft silky, often partly included in the
		uppermost sheath.
Spikelets: 	Crowded, 1-flowered, flower perfect, about 2 mm. long, nearly concealed by
		the numerous awns, the pedicels disarticulating a short distance below the glumes,
		leaving a shortpointed callus attached.
Glumes: 	Subequal, about 2 mm. long, hispidulous, each bearing a slender straight awn,
		4-8 mm. long, from the obtuse or 2-toothed apex.
Lemmas: 	Broad, smooth and shinning, about half as long as the glumes, hyaline, thin,
		emarginate or 2-toothed at the apex, bearing a delicate awn about 0.5-1 mm. long,
		inserted just below the apex or sometimes wanting.
Palea: 		About two thirds as long as the lemma.
Habitat: 	Waste places, wet soil.  April-August.
Kansas Range:	Along the Arkansas river valley east to Reno county.
Use: 		Palatable forage but too uncommon to be of value in Kansas.