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Small Dropseed is an annual grass with tufted, wiry, ascending stems that are 10-40 cm tall. Its leaves have flat to inrolled blades that are 1-2 mm wide and sheaths that enfold the stem only at the base; the sheaths have long hairs along their margins and at the junction with the blade. There is a short membrane, or ligule, on the blade where it meets the sheath. Tiny, short-stalked, tightly er...