Habit: 		Tufted, branching annual.
Culms: 		Erect or ascending, often decumbent and rooting at the lower nodes,
                50-150 cm. or more tall, branching from the middle and lower nodes, 
                leafy, softly pubescent at least below the nodes and beneath the panicles.
Blades: 	8-20 cm. long, 7-15 mm. wide, ascending or spreading, flat, 
                rounded at the base, softly pubescent on both surfaces, 
                often finely papillose.
Sheaths: 	The lower shorter than the internodes, the upper usually overlapping,
		densely ciliate, softly pubescent, often papillose.
Ligule: 	About 1 mm. long, ciliate.
Inflorescence: 	Panicles finally exserted, 8-20 cm. long, 10-30 mm. wide, the
		branches short, appressed, loosely flowered, the axis and rachis 
                pubescent with long hairs intermixed, the short-pediceled spikelets 
                somewhat crowded on several narrow spikelike racemes.
Spikelets: 	5-6 mm. long, about 2 mm. wide, fusiform, pointed, 
                short-attenuate at the base, pilose, 5-7-nerved.
Glumes: 	The first more than half the length of the spikelet, 
                3-5-nerved (3-7) acute, the second and sterile lemma exceeding 
                the fruit, often obscurely reticulate, 5-7-nerved.
Fertile lemmas:	Shorter and more obtuse than the glumes, enclosing a palea.
Fruit: 		3.7-3.8 mm. long, about 2 mm. wide, elliptic, apiculate, transversely rugose.
Habitat: 	Prairies and low open ground along streams and irrigation ditches.
Synonyms:	Urochloa texana (Buckl.) R. Webster