Stoloniferous perennial; cuhms 5-70 cm high, erect or geniculately ascending, slender to somewhat stout, succulent, smooth. Leaf-blades 4-20 cm long, 2-10 mm wide, rather thin. Panicle ovate to oblong, 5-30 cm long, 2.5-10 cm wide, the branches in half whorls of 3-5, successive whorls alternating. Spikelets 3-5 mm long, breaking up at maturity between the lemmas, green, yellow or brown, often variegated with purple; glumes obovate, blunt, the lower 1-1.5 mm long, the upper 1.5-2.5 mm long; lemma (1.5-)2.5-3.5 mm long, smooth or with minute hairs on the nerves.