Widely creeping stoloniferous perennial without rhizomes. Culms slender, 20-80 cm high. Leaf-blades linear-lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 4-15 cm long, 3-6(10) mm wide, glaucous, scaberulous, sparsely hairy at the base, auricles and orifices glabrous or pilose; ligule membranous, ciliolate on the upper edge, about 0.5 mm long. Racemes usually 4-8, 5-10 cm long, thin, flexuous, slightly drooping, in a single whorl. Spikelets 1.8-2.2 mm long; glumes lanceolate, 1-nerved; lemma pubescent on the keel and lateral nerves often with pointed clavate hairs; palea glabrous, keels smooth or rarely scaberulous; anthers about 0.5 mm long; caryopsis unequally trigonous and laterally compressed.