An annual grass, slender, short (usually c.25cm)  and with a spreading panicle; the spikelets in small groups at the tips of the panicle-branches.  Leaves with roughish sheaths; lemmas with short awns; glumes sub-equal.   It has a pale silvery appearance in flower.

Provide a field photograph of the flowering  grass in its habitat, with close up of the panicle

Dry, sparse, open grassland; heath-grassland; post-industrial sites; sandy or rocky ground

Frequent 

Occasional, but locally frequent where it occurs (Jeeves, M. (2011). The Flora of Leicestershire and Rutland: Checklist and Rare Plant Register. LRWT

Stace, C. (2019) New Flora of the British Isles (4th edn.). C & M Floristics