Perennial; culms 20-27 cm. high, slender, tufted, spreading, sometimes rooting at the lower nodes, glabrous or sparsely pilose below the nodes, these bearded with ascending hairs; sheaths overlapping, keeled, pilose or papillose-pilose, especially on the collar and along the margins; ligule about 0.2 mm. long; blades 3-6 cm. long, 3-6 mm. wide, the uppermost much reduced, acute, pilose or papillose on the lower surface, papillose or nearly glabrous on the upper; racemes 2-4, 2.2-4 cm. long, ascending or spreading, the rachis narrowly winged, about 0.8 mm. wide, terminated by a spikelet; spikelets 1.6 mm. long, solitary, narrowly obovate, sub-acute, glabrous, the glume and sterile lemma somewhat exceeding the fruit, the sterile lemma obscurely cross-wrinkled; fruit 1.5 mm. long, pale.
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