E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Flora of British Columbia

General:
Perennial, densely tufted or matted grass, from rhizomes up to 5 cm long; stems 10-75 cm tall.

Leaves:
Sheaths smooth; blades 3-10 cm long, 1-5 mm wide, flat; ligules wider than long, 0.5-2.5 mm long.

Flowers:
Inflorescence broadly egg-shaped, open, 3-20 cm long, with a lack of spikelets adjacent to the main axis, the spikelets well-spaced on the branches, none or only a few of these near the base, the lower branches 1.5-4.5 cm long, broadly spreading; glumes 1.7-3 mm long; lemmas 1.3-2.5 mm long, the callus hairs absent or sparse to 0.1 mm long; rachillas absent; paleas 0.6-1.2 mm long, at least 1/2 as long as the lemmas; anthers 0.8-1.3 mm long.