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Fig. 390. Panicum angustifolium Ell. Bot. S. Car. & Ga. 1: 129. 

 1817. — A rather slender but rigid, erect, more or less pubescent 

 perennial, 3 to 6 dm. high, at first simple, finally much branched 

 throughout. Leaves of the primary stems erect, 8 to 15 cm. long 

 and 4 to 6 mm. wide ; those of the wiry branches shorter and much 

 narrower. Panicles 7 to 10 cm. long, spreading, and rather loosely 

 flowered. Spikelets (a, 1), c) 3 mm. long, oblong, obtuse; outer 

 glumes finely pubescent. — Dry soil, North Carolina to Florida and 

 westward to Missouri and Texas. March-October. 



