Culms usually less than 30 cm, glabrous, usually very densely cespitose; nodes glabrous. Cauline blades mostly glabrous, sometimes sparsely pilose basally. Spikelets 1.4-1.8 mm, glabrous, obovoid; lower glumes about 1/3 as long as the spikelets. 2n = unknown.

Dichanthelium strigosum subsp. glabrescens grows in sandy, open pine woods and bogs. Its range extends from Mississippi along the coast to Florida and south through the West Indies.