Festuca occidentalis Hook.

Culms 4–11 dm, slender, glabrous, shining; sheaths and blades smooth, the blades filiform; infl open, flexuous, 10–20 cm; spikelets on slender pedicels, 6–12 mm, 3–5(–7) fld; first glume 2.7–3.6 mm, the second 3.5–4.5 mm; lemmas green or purplish, soft and membranous, the body 4–6.5(–8) mm, the awn two-thirds to almost twice as long; rachilla-joints 1–1.5 mm; anthers 1–2 mm; top of the ovary bristly-pubescent; 2n=14, 28, 42, 56, 64, 70. Dry woods; n. Mich. and adj. Ont.; Wis.; Wyo. to B.C. and Calif.

Can be grown by seedlings.