Eustachys floridana
Culms 50-100 cm, erect. Blades to 30 cm long, to 8.2 mm wide, apices acute. Panicles with 1-3 branches; branches 5-13 cm. Spikelets 3-3.7 mm; florets 3. Lower glumes 1.8-2 mm, apices acute to obtuse; upper glumes 2.2-3.1 mm, oblanceolate, truncate to occasionally bilobed, lobes obtuse, awned from between the lobes, awns 0.5-1 mm; calluses with tufts of hairs, hairs to 0.6 mm; lowest lemmas 2.9-3.7 mm, ovate, tan to light-brown at maturity, lateral-veins and keels with appressed, whitish to golden hairs, hairs to 0.7 mm, apices acute, awned, awns 0.4-0.6 mm, arising from just below the apices; second lemmas 1.5-2.6 mm, obovate, acute, mucronate. Caryopses about 1.7 mm. 2n = unknown.
Distribution
Fla., Ala., Ga.
Discussion
Eustachys floridana grows in dry, sandy woods and old fields. It is endemic to the southeastern United States.
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
"decumbent" is not a number.