Description ⁵

A relatively sensitive species of high quality tallgrass prairie remnants than can become locally extirpated given enough disturbance. It looks very similar to lanuginosum, who it often co-occurs with, but faithfully bears sheath hairs that are much longer than the sheath width. Towards the end of the summer the leaf and sheath hairs become scraggly, stiff, and disheveled, feeling very different from other grassland Dichantheliums.

Spikelets: 1.8-2.1 mm, obovoid or ellipsoid, pilose with papillose-based hairs.

From FNA

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