Eulalia aurea

Perennial to c. 1 m high, with tufts of leaves arising from a short, knotty rhizome. Leaves virtually smooth, often somewhat glaucous and/or reddish toward base; blade to 20 cm long and 6 mm wide, glabrous or with scattered hairs on upper surface; ligule truncate, to 2 mm long, glabrous. Inflorescence forked or subdigitate with up to 5 narrow, brown, silky-hairy racemes, 2–6 cm long; glumes 4–5.5 mm long, densely and evenly covered with appressed hairs to c. 3 mm long; sterile lemma vestigial or none; fertile lemma c. 2 mm long, truncate or shallowly bifid, its awn relatively stout, 10–15 mm long, twice bent and spirally twisting at maturity; palea vestigial, barely 0.5 mm long. Flowers mainly Nov.–Apr.