Perennial; culms tufted, 50-90 cm. high, slender, wiry, finally branching from the middle and upper nodes, the nodes bearded with appressed hairs; sheaths long-er than the internodes, the mar-gins ciliate, pubescent on the collar, with a tuft of usually long hairs at the throat; blades 3-15 cm. long, 2-3.5 mm. wide, involute, acuminate or attenuate to a rather fine point, puberulent on the upper surface, the lower surface glabrous or nearly so; racemes 1-7, 1-6 cm. long, as-cending-falcate on very short bearded peduncles, the rachis 3-4 mm. wide, golden; spikelets 2.5 mm. long, solitary, imbricate, acute, somewhat obscured by the long white hairs on the margins and at the base of the glume, the sterile lemma narrower, short-ciliate toward the apex; fruit 1.7 mm. long, scarcely indurate, minutely puberulent at the apex.
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