Panicum dichotomiflorum Michx.

Natural range:   Much of, especially eastern, North America

Habitat:  Wet disturbed places, ditches, shores, seasonal ponds

Florida status:  Native

Recognition:  Marsh and ditch grass.  Sheath can be hairy in var. bartowiense.  Leaves flat (vs. folded in P. repens).  Inflorescence branches scabrous, often delicate and uncrowded.   Spikelets 2-3 mm, often around 2.5 mm.  Lower glume truncate (as in P. repens) and very short.