Grass Description
Grows in gravelly grasslands, on rocky slopes, woodland and forest openings and in dry meadows on granitic, sandstone, or limestone soils.
General Description
Loose clumps 1 to 2 feet wide, 1/2 to 2 feet high. Stems wiry looking when mature and dried.
Tufted perennial; clumps to 2 feet wide and tall, wiry stems. Blades flat. Sheaths ridged, smooth, ligule square, membranous. Seedhead dense, narrow, often with gaps of no spikelets. Glumes awn pointed. Lemmas often awn-tipped.
Flower Characteristics
Dense spikelike seedheads with appressed branches that are spikelet bearing to the base but often have gaps of no spikelets. Spikelets single flowered, dark green or lead-colored; glumes equal, abruptly narrowed to a sharp point or a very short awn.
Vegetative Characteristics
Blades up to 5 inches long, folded or rolled inward at the edges, smooth or slightly hairy.
Good.