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

General:
Perennial, densely tufted grass from fibrous roots; stems 20-50 cm tall.

Leaves:
Sheaths open; blades of the stem leaves well-developed, in-rolled at least when dry, minutely rough, usually less than 1 mm wide, those of the basal innovations elongate, those of the flowering stems much shorter or the upper obsolete; ligules more or less fringed with fine hairs, blunt, 1.5-2.5 mm long.

Flowers:
Inflorescence a slender panicle reduced to a nearly simple raceme, egg-shaped and open at flowering, 3-8 cm long, the branches appressed or strongly ascending; glumes very thin, elliptic to egg-shaped, nearly equal, the lateral nerves inconspicuous, 3.5-4 mm long; lemmas about as long as glumes, grey or pale green, awned, the awns readily deciduous, straight or slightly bent, 1-2 mm long; callus hairs lacking.