Paspalum setaceum Michx.

Paspalum setaceum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 43. 1803
A tufted branched perennial with narrow fiat pubescent leaf-blades and glabrous or pubescent spikelets. Stems slender, 2-7 dm. tall; basal leaf-sheaths densely pubescent with long hairs, the upper ones pubescent only on the margins; blades 1.5 dm. long or less, rarely somewhat longer, usually 2.5-5 mm. wide, sometimes a little broader, linear, strict and erect or ascending, fiat, of medium texture, densely pubescent on both siurfaces with long hairs; racemes single, slender, 4-8 cm. long, sometimes a little longer, the rachis about 0.6 mm. wide; spikelets either single or in pairs, on shorter puberulent pedicels, about 1.5 mm. long and 1.3 mm. wide, broadly obovate, the first scale wanting, the second 3-nerved, glabrous or pubescent with spreading glandular-tipped hairs, the third 2-nerved, the midnerve rarely if ever present, glabrous or pubescent, the fruiting scale yellowish-white.
Type locality : Carolina.
Distribution : New Hampshire to Nebraska, and south to Florida and Texas; Cuba.