Briza maxima

Slender, tufted annual to 60 cm high. Leaves glabrous; blade to 20 cm long and 8 mm wide, finely scabrous along margins, otherwise smooth; ligule 2–5 mm long, blunt. Inflorescence a slender, few-branched panicle. Spikelets 7–20-flowered, drooping, plump, ovate or broadly oblong, 10–25 mm long, 8–15 mm wide, usually minutely hairy, occasionally glabrous; glumes 5–9-nerved, subequal, 5–7 mm long, firm, widely spreading, dorsally rounded; lemmas resembling glumes, but (at least the largest) usually slightly larger; palea c. two-thirds as long as lemma. Flowers Aug.–Dec.