Puccinellia stricta

Slender tufted annual or perennial, culms erect, to c. 75 cm high. Leaves pale green or slightly glaucous, glabrous; sheath often rather broad and loose; blade narrow, closely folded or inrolled, to 25 cm long and 1.5 mm wide; ligule blunt, 1–3 mm long. Inflorescence contracted at anthesis (usually remaining so but, rarely, spreading with age), to c. 30 cm long, 30 cm wide. Spikelets 4–12-fIowered, 4.5–12 mm long; lower glume 1–3 mm long; upper glume 1.5–4 mm long; lemma 2–3.7 mm long; palea slightly shorter than lemma; anthers 0.5–1 mm long. Flowers Sep.–Jan.