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Fig. 59. Panicum barbulatum Michx. Bearded-joint.— 

 Culms 3 to 9 dm. high, finally much-hriiuched, slender, smooth, 

 except the nodes, which are conspicuously barbed with reflexed, 

 white hairs, panicle ovate-pyramidal, spikelets numerous, small.— 

 Bogs, wet meadows, and low woodlands, southern New York to 

 Illinois, Florida, and New Mexico. 



