Delicate annual; culms 5-25 cm. high, erect, freely branching; blades 1-5 cm. long, less than 1 mm. wide, scabrous on the margins, often sparsely pilose with long white hairs; panicles 2-8 cm. long, usually tinged with purple, the capillary branches ascending or spreading, more or less flexuous, naked below, not more than 2 cm. long; glumes narrow, acuminate, the first 2-2.5 mm. long, the second 2.5-3 mm. long, sometimes subequal; lemma 2 mm. long, tapering into a slender twisted column 1.5-2 mm. long; awns about 5 mm. long, divergent.
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