Culms 5–10 dm, glabrous or hairy; sheaths retrorse-hairy; blades scabrous to hairy, ciliate-margined, 8–18 cm × 8–16 mm, panicle erect or declined, 5–15 cm, the few spikelets appressed; first glume none or to 0.8 mm; second glume subulate, 1–4 mm; lemma 6–10 mm, scabrous to hispidulous on the nerves, its awn 12–25 mm; prolongation of the rachilla two-thirds as long as the lemma; 2n=22. Moist woods; Que. and Nf. to Ont., Minn., and Kans., s. to Ga., La., and Okla.; e. Asia. Two well marked vars. in N. Amer.:
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