Stoloniferous perennial; culms 10-60 cm. long, slender, creeping, rooting at the nodes, the ascending branches 10-25 cm. long, the internodes usually short, the nodes glabrous or appressed-pubescent; sheaths usually shorter than the inter-nodes, compressed, glabrous, the margins ciliate toward the summit; blades 1-6 cm. long, 1.5-7 mm. wide, spreading, glabrous or minutely pubescent; racemes 2-7, approximate, ascending or spreading, 1-2, or rarely 3, cm. long, the rachis narrowly winged, 0.5-0.8 mm. wide, the peduncle included or short-exserted; spikelets 1-1.2 mm. long, ovoid, minutely pointed, glabrous or rarely pubescent, greenish-golden, the margins of the sterile lemma somewhat raised; fruit 0.9-1 mm. long, smooth and shining, chestnut-brown.
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