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The height ranges from 40 to 120 cm (47 in). The panicle is 7-20cm, usually nodding and often spreading, but erect as first.[5] The leaf-sheaths are hairy, the upper are usually hairless. B. commutatus is stouter than B. racemosus, the Smooth Brome, with a flower-head not drooping to one side and a broader elongated branched flower head.