Sporobolus cryptandrus

Family: Poaceae
Common Name: sand dropseed
Symbol: SPCR
Description: Perennial; bunch grass, not rhizomatous, bases not hard and knotty. Culms 30-100(120) cm tall, 1-3.5 mm thick, erect to decumbent. Sheaths rounded below, glabrous or scabridulous, margins sometimes ciliate distally, apices with conspicuous tufts of hairs; ligules 0.5-1 mm; blades 5-26 cm long, 2-6 mm wide, flat to involute, glabrous abaxially; flag blades nearly perpendicular to the culms. Panicles 15-40 cm long, 2-12 cm wide, longer than wide, initially contracted and spikelike, ultimately open and narrowly pyramidal.