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General:
Perennial tufted herb, sometimes with short, waxy rhizomes; stems 40-150 cm long, erect but sometimes slightly bent at the base, the nodes exposed, smooth.
Leaves:
Sheaths smooth to finely hairy, often purplish; blades 5-14 mm wide, drooping, usually finely hairy to rough above; ligules up to 1 mm long; ear-shaped lobes at the leaf-bases up to 1 mm long or absent.
Flowers:
Inflorescence a spike, 7-30 cm long, nodding at the tip; spikelets (1) 2 (3) per node, sometimes solitary toward tip, 4 to 5 florets per spikelet; glumes narrowly lanceolate, 3-8 mm long, smooth to rough on the veins, the margins thin or transparent, awned, the awns 1-6 mm long; lemmas 8-13 mm long, rough to short-haired, awned, the awns 10-25 mm long, usually curving outward near the base; anthers 0.9-1.7 mm long.
Source: The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia
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