Upper lemmas of sessile spikelets entire at maturity; awns 15-22 mm, straight or sinuous throughout.

Saccharum brevibarbe var. brevibarbe grows in the southeastern coastal states and is common in central and southern Arkansas, eastern Oklahoma, the piney woods region of eastern Texas, and northern Louisiana.

Culms 1-2 m, wholly glabrous, even the axis and branches of the panicle; blades to 15 mm wide, scaberulous, pilose toward the base; panicle 2-4 dm, narrow, brown or purple; spikelets 5-8 mm, scabrously puberulent toward the tip, the copious, pale or white subtending hairs 2-4 mm; awn 2 cm, subterete, straight or slightly flexuous. Damp soil of the coastal plain from Del. and Md. to La., n. to Ark. and s. Ill. (E. coarctatus; Saccharum b.)

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

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