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  I call the inflorescence "fingers" when they have branches that radiate from the top or near the top of the seedhead. I separate them out because some of them are common and fairly easy to identify. The finger-like grasses naturally divide themselves into (1)those that look like skinny threads that originate from one point (the "palm trees", properly called digitate) versus (2)those that are usually wider or fluffier and sometimes originate near the top but not from one point.

Bothriochloa barbinodis Cane Bluestem Puff-like Long-Awned Fingers	Chloris virgata Feather Fingergrass Slender Short-Awned Fingers	Bothriochloa ischaemum Yellow Bluestem Slender Long-awned Fingers
Cynodon dactylon Bermudagrass Fingers Like a Palm Tree	Paspalum dilatatum Dallis Grass Sparce Fingers	Andropogon gerardii Big Bluegrass Three Fingers