Japan Flora: Stolons elongate, with shoots at the nodes; culms 10-20 cm. long, erect, firm, leafy only near base; leaf-blades 5-10 cm. long, 2-5 mm. wide, flat or with loosely involute margins, sparsely long- pilose while young; racemes long-exserted, 3-5 cm. long, linear- lanceolate; spikelets obliquely oblong-ovate, about 3 mm. long, 1.2-1.5 mm. wide, lustrous; second glume coriaceous, smooth, glabrous, rather obtuse or with a mucro about 1 mm. long, faindy 5-nerved; lemma slightly shorter than the second glume, folded, lanceolate, chartaceous, rather obtuse, 1-nerved; anthers about 1.5 mm. long. May-June. Sunny slopes in mountains and hills.

Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu; common and frequently cultivated as a lawn grass. Korea and China.