Redfieldia flexuosa (Thurb.).
Blowoutgrass

Habit: 		Tall perennials, with long slender scaly rhizomes.
Culms: 		60-100 cm. tall, tough.
Blades: 	30-60 cm. long, 2-4 mm. wide, glabrous, flexuous, usually involute.
Sheath: 	Overlapping.
Ligules: 	A ring of hairs, the shortest in the center.
Inflorescence: 	Panicle oblong, one third to one half of the plant, 20-50 cm. long, with long,
		diffuse, capillary branches.
Spikelets: 	Numerous 5-7 mm. long, mostly 3-4-flowered, broadly V-shape, the rachilla
		disarticulating above the glumes and between the florets.
Glumes: 	2, about equal, acuminate, 1-nerved, glabrous, about half as long as the spikelets.
Lemmas: 	Acute (sometimes mucronate), 4-5 mm. long, compressed-keeled with a basal ring
		of hairs, 3-nerved.
Palea: 		About as long as its lemma.
Fruit: 		Grain free.
Habitat: 	Sand hills.  August-September.
Kansas Range:	Southwest fourth and Shawnee county.
Remarks: 	A good sandbinding grass.