Japan Flora: Pubescent annual; culms 30-60 cm. long; leaf-blades 4-5 mm. wide; panicles 10-20 cm. long, nodding or nearly erect, branches nearly simple, with 1 or 2 spikelets, each 3-4 cm. long, 6- to 8-flowered; glumes linear-lanceolate, the lower 15-20 mm. long; lemmas scabrous, with 2 teeth about 3 or 4 mm. long, the awn rising from between the teeth; anthers 0.7-1 mm. long. Naturalized in Honshu and Shikoku. Europe.