Perennial; culms 20-50 cm. high, erect or ascending, branching; sheaths glabrous or sparsely papillose-pilose; ligule minutely ciliate, 0.5 mm. long; blades firm, flat, 8-15 cm. long, 2-5 mm. wide, glabrous or scabrous, sometimes more or less papillose or papillose-pilose; spikes 5-10, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, rather close to-gether, appressed or spreading, falling entire; glumes acuminate, subequal, about 7 mm. long, scabrous or hispid on the keel; lemma of fertile floret 8 mm. long, the central awn 2-4 mm. long, the lateral 1.5-2 mm. long; rudiment glabrous, about 6 mm. long, deeply cleft, the awn from between the lobes 8-10 mm. long, the lateral awns much more slender and a little shorter than the central one.
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