Culms 5-20 cm, glabrous or puberulent. Sheaths puberulent or glabrous;
blades strongly involute, often arcuate, puberulent or glabrous on both
surfaces. Primary panicles usually barely exserted above the dense basal
tuft of blades. Spikelets 1.3-1.5 mm, puberulent. 2n = unknown.
Dichanthelium chamaelonche subsp. breve grows only in peninsular
Florida.