Bog Wild Oat Grass

Danthonia sericea Nutt. Gen. 1: 71. 1818
Danthonia glabra Nash, Bull. Torrey Club 24: 43. 1897. (Type from Little Stone Mountain,
Georgia, Small in 1895.) Not D. glabra Philippi, 1896. Danthonia epilis Scribn. Circ. U. S. Dep. Agr. Agrost. 30: 7. 1901. (Based on D. glabra Nash.) Merathrepta sericea A. Heller. Muhlenbergia 5: 120. 1909. (Based on Danthonia sericea Nutt.) Pentameris epilis Nelson & Macbr. Bot. Gaz. 56: 469. 1913. (Based on Danthonia epilis Scribn.) Pentameris sericea Nelson & Macbr. Bot. Gaz. 56: 470. 1913. (Based on Danthonia sericea Nutt.)
Culms erect, densely tufted, 50-100 cm. tall; sheaths, especially the lower, villous (rarely glabrous); blades 10-25 cm. long, 2-4 mm. wide, those of the innovations mostly involute, those of the culm mostly flat, sparsely villous to glabrous; panicle 5-10 cm. long, relatively many-flowered, the branches bearing 2-6 spikelets, rather open, or contracted after anthesis; glumes 12-17 mm. long; lemmas densely long-pilose, especially along the margin, about 10 mm. long, including the slender aristate teeth, the teeth about half the entire length; terminal segment of the dorsal awn 8-10 mm. long; palea narrowed toward the 2-toothed apex.
TvpB locality: "Carolina to Florida;" the type from Georgia.
Distribution: Sandy soil and sterile woods, chiefly on the coastal plain, Massachusetts and New Jersey to northern Florida, Tennessee, and Louisiana.