Japan Flora: Tufted, villous perennial; culms 50-100 cm. long, villous; leaf-blades flat, linear, 10-25 cm. long, 7-15 mm. wide; ligules very short, ciliate; racemes 4-7, loosely arranged on the axis, 2-5 cm. long, white-villous, spreading, rachis about 1 mm. wide, 3-angled; spikelets slightly compressed, broadly ovate, 4.5-5 mm. long inclusive of the basal ring, acute; second glume and sterile lemma as long as the spikelet, broadly ovate, rather acute, membranous, softly pubescent, pale, with 5, green, weak nerves; fertile lemma as large as the sterile one, subobtuse, coriaceous, punctate, yellow. July-Oct. Grassy places in lowlands.

Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu; rather common. Ussuri, China, Manchuria, and Korea.