Habit: 		Somewhat succulent, branching annual.
Culms: 		Spreading or ascending from a decumbent base, 50-100 cm. or more long,
	        compressed, somewhat fleshy, freely branching, usually smooth throughout, thick,
	        succulent, drying furrowed, at least the lower nodes swollen.
Blades: 	Flat or sometimes folded, 10-50 cm. long, 3-20 mm. wide, sometimes sparsely
		pilose on the upper surface, the white midrib usually prominent.
Sheaths: 	Usually longer than the internodes, somewhat flattened, loose, ciliate above.
Ligule: 	A dense ring of white hairs 1-2 mm. long.
Inflorescence: 	Panicles terminal and axillary, mostly included at base, 10-40 cm.
		long or more, diffuse, the main branches ascending, the short branchlets
		appressed, bearing short-pediceled, often rather crowded spikelets.
Spikelets: 	Usually about 2.5 mm. (2-3.2_ long, narrowly oblong-ovate, acute,
		short pediceled, greenish-purple, glabrous.
Glumes: 	First usually less than one-fourth the length of the spikelet,
		truncate or broadly triangular, 1-3-nerved, the second and sterile lemma
		about equal, somewhat pointed beyond the fruit, rather faintly 7-nerved,
		the palea of the sterile lemma nearly equal to the fruit or wanting.
Fruit: 		About 2 mm. long, 0.8 mm. wide, elliptic, smooth and shining.
Habitat: 	Wet soil, fields, and waste places, weedy.  July-September.
Synonyms:	Panicum dichotomiflorum Michx. var. dichotomiflorum
		Panicum dichotomiflorum Michx. var. geniculatum (Wood) Fern.