Lepturus radicans A.Camus

Perennial with slender branching stolons rooting from the nodes.. Culms 10–30 cm. high, erect or ascending, slender.. Leaf-blades linear-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, 2–12.5 cm. long, 4–8 mm. wide, flat, green or glaucous, glabrous, the lower attenuated at the base, sometimes into a fine petiole up to 3.5 cm. long, the upper abruptly contracted there.. Spikes straight, 2–6.5 cm. long, green, glabrous, with internodes 2–5 mm. long, up to 2 mm. wide.. Spikelets 1-flowered, 3–5 mm. long (the terminal 5–8 mm. long); upper glume oblong-lanceolate to oblong-ovate, 5–9-nerved, smooth, acute or acutely acuminate; lemma ovate-oblong or elliptic-ovate, 2.5–4 mm. long, glabrous or minutely hairy at the base, obtuse; anthers 0.6–2 mm. long.