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Fig. 385. Panicum depauperatum Mubl. Gram. 112. 1817.— 

 A slender, erect, or ascending perennial, nsually lunch branched 

 near the base, about 1.5 to 4 dm. high, with very narrow, erect 

 leaves 8 to 20 cm. long, few-flowered narrow panicles 4 to 10 cm. 

 long, and rather smooth spikelets (a, b, c) 3 to 4 mm. long. — Open 

 woodlands and gravelly fields from Nova Scotia and Manitoba 

 southward to Florida and Texas. May-August. 



