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.