Panicum ensifolium var. breve (Hitchc. & Chase) Wipff & S. D. Jones

Panicum breve Hitchc. & Chase, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 15:
271. 1910.
Vernal phase purplish; culms in dense tufts, 5-17 cm. high, erect, stiff and wiry, glabrous or appressed-pubescent below; leaf-sheaths crowded at the base as in species of Festuca, those of the culms usually longer than the internodes, ciliate on the margin, otherwise glabrous; ligule dense, about 0.3 mm. long; blades firm, erect or ascending, 3-6 cm., sometimes 8 cm. long, about 1.5 mm. wide when flattened out, strongly involute, more or less falcate, sometimes strongly so, a few long, stiff hairs on the margin toward the base, otherwise glabrous; panicles short-exserted, 1.5-4 cm. long, nearly as wide, loosely flowered, the flexuous branches spreading; spikelets 1.3-1.4 mm. long, obovate, obtuse, turgid, puberulent; first glume one third to half as long as the spikelet; second" glume and sterile lemma barely equaling the fruit at maturity;
fruit 1.2 mm. long, elliptic.
Autumnal phase erect, branching from the middle nodes, the fascicled branches strict,the
reduced wiry blades overtopping the panicles.
Type locality: Jensen, Florida. Distribution : East coast of Florida.