Culms slender, loosely tufted, erect, spreading or prostrate and rooting at lower nodes, up to 60 cm tall, nodes bearded.
纤细，松弛丛生的秆，直立，平展或匍匐和生根在下部节，可达60厘米高，具髯毛的节。Her father insisted she start shaving at the age of 7, but since 1993 Vivian Wheeler has not, letting her beard grow.
她的父亲强调说，她从7岁就开始修面，但到了1993年，薇薇安威勒不再修了，于是任她的髯毛自由生长。Culms stout, up to 2 m or more tall, ca. 10 mm in diam. , simple or rarely branched, nodes bearded.
秆粗壮，2米或更高的可达，10毫米直径的约，单的或很少分枝，节具髯毛。Flowers dark violet or purplish blue; outer perianth segments with darker and sometimes also white lines radiating from beard.
花深色的紫色的或带紫色蓝色；外部花被片具深色的和有时也白色线从具髯毛辐射状的。Culms tufted, up to 150 cm tall, unbranched, nodes bearded.
丛生的秆，可达150厘米高，不分枝，具髯毛的节。Petals oblong-ovate, lateral ones distinctly bearded, stigma papillose.
卵形花瓣长圆形，侧生的明显具髯毛，柱头具小乳突。Lower glume longer than upper glume; panicle open, branches divaricate, bearded in axils.
更低的颖片长于上面颖片；圆锥花序开阔的，分枝，具髯毛在腋处。Culms erect or geniculately ascending, up to 100 cm tall, 5- or more-noded, nodes bearded.
上升的秆直立或geniculately，100厘米高的可达，5-更有节的或，具髯毛的节。Staminode limb triangular, 2-cleft, sparsely yellowish barbate. Filaments glabrous.
三角形的退化雄蕊的瓣片，2半裂，稀少淡黄具髯毛。