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

General:
Perennial grass from long creeping rhizomes; stems erect or decumbent at the base, (5) 10-80 (100) cm tall.

Leaves:
Sheaths closed about 1/2 their length, smooth; blades 1-5 (10) mm wide, usually flat, smooth; ligules 1-6 (8) mm long, membranous, the margins jagged.

Flowers:
Inflorescence an open panicle, 3-20 cm long, the branches stiff to pendulous; spikelets (1-) 2- to 7- (9-) flowered, 2.5-8 mm long; glumes 1.5-4 mm long, shorter than the adjacent lemmas, broadly lanceolate to egg-shaped, translucent; lemmas 3-4 mm long, egg-shaped, rounded, smooth, the nerves 3 (5), obscure, the calluses with a few stiff hairs; anthers 1.2-3 mm long.