Japan Flora: Tufted, stout perennial; culms erect, in large tussocks, 80-120 cm. long, smooth, glabrous; leaf-blades flat, scabrous, green or glaucous- green, 30-60 cm. long, 5-10 mm. wide; ligules deltoid, 7-12 mm. long, hyaline; panicles erect, lobed, 8-20 cm. long, the branches distant, solitary, stiff, spreading to ascending, sca­brous, the spikelets in dense 1-sided fascicles borne at the ends of the branches; spikelets 7-8 mm. long, glaucous-green, 2- to 3-flowered; glumes lanceolate, acuminate, scabrous, the lower 1-nerved, 3-4 mm. long, the upper 3-nerved, 5-6 mm. long; lemmas 6-7 mm. long; anthers 2-3 mm. long. July-Ang. Naturalized in pastures and waste places; Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu; common. Eurasia and w. Asia.