Culms usually 5-30 cm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent; nodes glabrous. Cauline blades glabrous. Spikelets 1.6-2.1 mm, broadly ellipsoid, pubescent; lower glumes about 1/2 as long as the spikelets. 2n = unknown.
Dichanthelium strigosum subsp. leucoblepharis grows in low, moist, sandy pinelands and bogs. Its range extends from North Carolina along the coastal plain to Florida and eastern Texas and into Mexico.