Habit: 		Perennials, loosely tufted, often with short creeping rhizomes.
Culms: 		Smooth, 50-120 cm. tall, erect.
Blades: 	Flat, 10-60 cm. long, 4-8 mm. wide, smooth beneath, scabrous above.
Sheaths: 	Mostly shorter than internodes.
Inflorescence: 	Panicle erect or nodding at the summit, 10-20 cm. long, rather open in anthesis, narrowed in fruit, branches spikelet-bearing nearly to the base.
Spikelets: 	3-13 flowered, usually 6-8 flowered, 8-12 mm. long; the flowers perfect or the upper ones staminate, the rachilla articulates between the flowers.
Glumes: 	2, membranous, unequal, keeled, acute, the first mostly 1-nerved, the second 3-nerved, 3 and 4 mm. long.
Lemmas: 	5-7 mm. long, 3-7-nerved, scabrous toward the apex; rounded on the back, at least below, the scarious apex acute, rarely short-awned.
Palea: 		A little shorter than the lemma, 2-keeled.
Flowers: 	With 3 stamens.
Fruit: 		Grain.
Habitat: 	Meadows, roadsides and waste places. June-August.
Kansas Range: East two thirds, west to Sheridan county.
Use: 		A meadow, pasture, and hay grass.
Synonyms:	Lolium arundinaceum (Schreb.) S.J. Darbyshire
		Festuca arundinacea Schreb.
		Festuca elatior L. ssp. arundinacea (Schreb.) Hack.
		Festuca elatior L. var. arundinacea (Schreb.) C.F.H. Wimmer