Coleataenia tenera (Beyr. ex Trin.) Soreng

Panicum tenerum Beyr.; Trin. Mem. Acad. St.-Petersb. VI. 3 2 :
341. 1834.
Panicum anceps sirictum Chapm. Fl. S. U. S. 573. 1860.
Plants in small tufts from a knotted crown, 40-90 cm. high, olivaceous; culms erect, stiff and wiry, producing small, solitary panicles from the upper nodes or remaining simple, glabrous ; leaf-sheaths much shorter than the internodes, the upper glabrous, the lower sparsely to copiously papillose-pubescent toward the summit with soft, spreading or reflexed hairs; blades 4-15 cm. long, 2-4 mm. wide (the uppermost much reduced), erect, firm, drying involute at least toward the summit, pilose on the upper surface toward the base, or the lower sometimes on both surfaces; terminal panicles rather short-exserted, 3-8 cm. long, rarely more than 5 mm. wide, the short, appressed, subracemose branches bearing rather crowded spikelets throughout their length, the pedicels usually with a few long hairs at the summit; spikelets 2.2-2.8 mm. long, 0.8-1 mm. wide, narrowly ovate, pointed; first glume clasping, half as long as the spikelet or more, 1 -nerved, glabrous or obscurely strigose toward the summit; second glume and sterile lemma equal, exceeding the fruit, 5-7-nerved, glabrous; fruit 1.7-1.8 mm. long, about 0.8 mm. wide.
Type locality: Georgia.
Distribution: Georgia to Texas; Bahamas, Cuba, and Porto Rico.