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

General:
Annual grass from fibrous roots; stems abruptly bent at the base, 10-30 cm tall.

Leaves:
Sheaths open; blades flat, 1-3 mm wide; ear-shaped lobes at the leaf-bases slender, nearly 1 mm long; ligules jagged with coarse hairs, about 1 mm long.

Flowers:
Inflorescence a strongly flattened, egg-shaped to cylindrical spike, 1-1.7 cm long; spikelets 11 to 19, closely crowded, broadly spreading, 6-10 mm long; glumes broadly lanceolate, 4-6 mm long, long-pointed to short-awned; lemmas 5-6 mm long, long-pointed to short-awned, lowest ones short-hairy below and smooth above, other lemmas smooth; paleas rounded or slightly toothed at the tips.