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Grasses , . <br />• Rhizomes scaly, pointy like Panicum repens • <br />• Leaves yellow -green, long pointed, erect • <br />• Leaf -blade midvein off -center • <br />• Leaf blades hairy at base • <br />• Flowers in narrow, fluffy, white spikes • <br />• Rhizomes with hard torpedo-like tips • <br />• Leaf blades with sparse hairs on upper side • <br />• Ligule a tiny collar with short hairs at top • <br />• Sheaths glabrous or hairy near top • <br />• Inflorescence branched & open • <br />Stems reedlike, to 9 ft tall <br />Stems often branched <br />Leaf sheaths woolly at top <br />Large, densely feathery, nodding panicles <br />Spikelets long -hairy, short awned <br />Perennial grass to 9+ ft tall <br />Stem nodes bluish, leaves often bluish green <br />Leaf blades with stout, keeled midrib <br />Inflorescence a dense, bristly, tawny spike <br />Spikelets with bristles falling at maturity <br />10 68 <br />