Panicum filiramum Ashe

Panicum chrysopsidifolium Nash, in Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 100. 1903
Vernal phase with ascending or spreading, rather slender culms, 30-45 cm. high, purplish, grayish-villous, especially below, the nodes bearded; leaf-sheaths much shorter than the internodes, villous like the culm, densely so at the summit; blades 5-10 cm. long, 3-5 mm. wide, tapering from base to apex, conspicuously pointed, villous on both surfaces; panicles finally long-exserted, 4r~6 cm. long, about three fourths as wide, the flexuous branches ascending or spreading; spikelets 2 mm. long, 1.2-1.3 mm. wide, obovate, blunt and turgid; first glume one third the length of the spikelet, subacute or obtuse; second glume and sterile lemma subequal, scarcely covering the fruit at maturity, villous, the bullate papillae prominent; fruit 1.7 mm. long, 1.2 mm. wide, broadly elliptic, minutely puberulent at the apex.
Autumnal phase spreading and forming mats, the culms slender, often zigzag toward the
tip; blades numerous, flat, becoming papery with age, mostly 1-3 cm. long, 1.5 mm. wide;
spikelets more turgid than usual in the primary panicle.
Typb locality: L/eon County, Florida.
Distribution: Florida to Louisiana and the Greater Antilles.