Annual. Culms 30-100 cm high. Panicle 1.5-4 cm long, 1.5-2 cm wide, ovate to oblong-ovate. Glumes 7-10 mm long, acute, pale green with darker green longitudinal stripes, broadly winged; sterile florets 2, broad and somewhat chaffy. 2.5-4.5 mm long, sparsely pubescent; fertile floret acute, 4.8-6.8 mm long. densely appressed-pubescent.

Types: Southern Europe and Canaries (LINN).

Distribution: Pakistan (Baluchistan; introduced); a native of the Mediterranean region; widely introduced elsewhere.

Canary Grass is used in mixtures of seed for cage-birds and therefore often occurs as a casual and may even establish itself. There are no modern records for Pakistan, but no doubt the plant is still to be found.