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

General:
Perennial, tufted grass from fibrous roots; stems 24-65 cm tall; lower nodes usually smooth, sometimes evenly hairy but not with lines of hairs, nodes sometimes concealed by the lower sheaths.

Leaves:
Lower sheaths smooth; blades 1.3-3 mm wide; lower ligules 0.2-1 mm long, stiff, blunt or rounded, highest at the sides; upper ligules to 3.5 mm long, blunt to rounded.

Flowers:
Inflorescence a loose, but narrow panicle, 6-24 cm long; glumes unequal, 15-30 mm long; lemmas mostly smooth, but the base and margins with brown hairs, 8.5-14 mm long, awned, the awns twice bent, 50-105 mm long, rough throughout, the tips straight; calluses 3-5 mm long.