Habit: 		Tufted annual, delicate.
Culms: 		Erect or decumbent at base; slender; weak; 10-40 cm. high.
Blades: 	Folded to involute to flat; 1-8 cm. long, 0.5-1.5 mm. wide, scabrous; boat-shaped tip.
Sheaths: 	Shorter than the internodes, smooth or slightly scabrous, striate.
Ligule: 	Membranous, about 1-5 mm. long.
Inflorescence: 	Panicle weak, open and drooping, narrow, 5-20 cm. long, the capillary fascicled branches
		naked below, spikelet bearing towards the ends, the whole panicle breaking away at maturity.
Spikelets: 	1.5-2 mm. long, linear-lanceolate, numerous, small, 1-flowered, disarticulating above the glumes.
Glumes: 	Nearly equal, 1-2 mm long, persistent, membranous, keeled, acute, awnless, scabrous on the keel and margins.
Lemmas: 	1-1.5 mm. long, acute or minutely 2-toothed, thin-hyaline, with a slender, flexuous, delicately
		pilose awn, 5-10 mm. long, inserted below the tip, or sometimes awnless.
Palea: 		Wanting.
Habitat: 	Dry soil, in fields and waste places.  May-July.
Synonyms:	Agrostis exigua Thurb.Synonyms:	Agrostis exigua Thurb.