Stoloniferous perennial, to 35 cm tall; culms decumbent-spreading, slender, glabrous with some nodes pubescent. Sheaths glabrous to pilose, longer than the internodes except near apex; blades 2-6 cm long, l-3 mm wide, pilose on both surfaces, the margins scabrid. Racemes terminal, solitary, 2.5-5.5 cm long, brown; rachis pubescent; spikelets densely brown-pubescent, 2 or 3 per node, 1 or 2 sessile, l pedicellate, all perfect, 3-4 mm long excluding awn; first glume truncate and fimbriate at apex; sterile lemma lacking; fertile lemma awned, the awn 6-8 mm long, geniculate, twisted. Croat 12827.