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

General:
Perennial grass from fibrous roots; stems slender, flaccid, sometimes somewhat decumbent, creeping at base, 30-100 cm tall.

Leaves:
Sheaths open; blades flat, 2-8 mm wide; ligules finely toothed, pointed, 1-1.5 mm long.

Flowers:
Inflorescence an open panicle, 5-20 cm long, the branches relatively few, eventually diffuse, 5-15 cm long; spikelets 4- to 6-flowered, narrowly egg-shaped, 4-7 mm long; glumes broadly rounded at the wax-papery tips; lemmas egg-shaped, sharply 7-nerved, finely hairy or minutely rough, eroded at the rounded tips, 2.5-3.5 mm long; paleas 4 to 5 times as long as wide; anthers about 1 mm long.