Corynephorus canescens, common name grey hair-grass[2] or gray clubawn grass,[3] is a species of plants in the grass family, native to Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa but widely naturalized in North America.

Both the upper and lower glumes are shiny, lanceolate, and membranous.

The lemma have a dorsal awn and dentate apex with obscure lateral veins.

Its fertile lemma is ovate, keelless, membranous and is 1.8–2.2 millimetres (0.071–0.087 in) long.

The floret callus is hairy with rhachilla internodes being pilose.