Habit: 		Annual.
Culms: 		Tufted, wiry, erect or ascending, much branched at the base,
                10-15 cm. tall (in depauperate specimens
		sometimes nearly simple).
Blades: 	Short, 3-7 cm. long, scarcely 1 mm. wide, the lower mostly flat, the 
                upper involute, scabrous.
Sheaths: 	Loose, much shorter than the internodes.
Ligule: 	Small, hairy.
Inflorescence: 	Panicles 5-12 cm. long, narrow, few-flowered, simple, the 
                lateral ones often sessile and partially enclosed in the sheaths.
Spikelets: 	Few, 7-9 mm. long, 1-flowered, narrow.
Glumes: 	About equal, or the first a little shorter, 6-8 mm. long, scabrous 
                on the keel and more or less scaberulous on the back, often toothed
                and mucronate.
Lemmas: 	Without the awn 5-6 mm. long, 3-nerved, somewhat compressed
                above, firm, narrow, rigid, strongly convolute, callus short, rather blunt, 
                sparingly pubescent, column obsolete, central awn 3-6 mm. long, 
                spirally 1-2 coiled at the base, bent horizontally or somewhat reflexed, the
                lateral awns a continuation of the lateral nerves, erect, usually about 1 mm. long.
Palea: 		Thin, included by the lemma.
Habitat: 	Sandy soil, dry open ground.  August-September.