Seashore Dropseed

Sporobolus virginicus (L.) Kunth, Rev. Gram. 1: 67. 1829
Agroslis virginica L. Sp. PI. 63. 1753.
Vilfa virginica Beauv. Agrost. 16, 182. 1812. (Based on Agroslis virginica L.)
Agroslis pungens Muhl. Descr. Gram. 72. 1817. (Type from eastern United States.) Not A.
pungens Schreb. 1769. Crypsis virginu a Nutt. Gen. 1: 49. 1818. (Based on Agroslis virginica " Willd.") Podosaemum virginicum Link, Hort. Berol. 1: 85. 1827. (Based on Agroslis virginica L.)
Perennial, with numerous, branching, widely creeping, slender rhizomes (yellowish in
drying;; culms erect, 10-40 cm. tall; sheaths overlapping, more or less pilose at the throat;
Hat or becoming involute especially toward the fine point, conspicuously distichous,
mostly less than 5 cm. long or on the innovations longer; panicle pale, contracted or spikelike,
2-8 cm. long, 5-10 mm. thick; spikelets 2-2.5 mm. long; glumes and lemma about equal.
Type locality: Virginia.
DISTRIBUTION: Sandy or muddy seashores and saline marshes, forming extensive colonies, with relatively few flowering culms, southeastern Virginia (Gron. Fl. Virg.) to Florida and Texas, and southward through the West Indies to Brazil: also Ecuador to Chile; warmer parts of the Old World.