Sclerochloa dura (L.) Beauv. Habit: Low, spreading tufted annual. Culm: Erect to spreading, 2 to 7 cm. long. Blades: Blades folded with boat-shaped tips, lower leaf blades very small, the upper leaves increasingly larger, 7-18 mm. long, 1 to 3 mm. wide. Sheaths: Broad and overlapping. Inflorescence: Dense, spikelike raceme, 1-2 cm long, 0.5 to 1.0 cm wide, the upper leaves exceed the raceme. Spikelets: Subsessile, imbricate in 2 rows on one side of the broad thick rachis, 6 to 7 mm long on short, thick pedicels, 3-flowered, the upper floret sterile. Glumes: Thick and firm, 1st glume one-third the second in length, the second half as long as the spikelets. Lemmas: 5 mm. long, rounded on the back, obtuse with 5 prominent parallel nerves and hyaline margins. Palea: Hyaline, sharply keeled. Habitat: Found in waste areas, particularly in areas with foot traffic, i.e. parks, baseball fields. July-September. Kansas Range: Sattered in eastern half of Kansas.