A medium -sized tussock grass with fine, somewhat wispy foliage. In early summer, shining pink flowerheads emerge above the foliage, a very attractive feature of the species. The infloresecences in the picture have reached this stage of maturity. The long, fine awn (projection from the top of the seed)of each seed coils loosely as the seed matures and ripens to a mid brown. This species somewhat resembles the serious introduced environmental weed, Serrated Tussock *Nassella trichotoma although the tussock is finer and more upright and the spreading inflorescence of Serrated Tussock holds short rounded seeds.