Parapholis incurva is a species of grass native to Europe, Asia and northern Africa, and widely naturalised elsewhere.
Common names include coast barbgrass, curved sea hard grass, curved hard-grass,[1] sicklegrass, curved sicklegrass and curved parapholis.
It is a tufted annual bunchgrass up to 30 centimetres high, with green flowers.
[2] It was first published as Aegilops incurva by Carl Linnaeus, and transferred into Parapholis by Charles Edward Hubbard in 1946.
[3] It is widespread in the old world, occurring in northern Africa, Europe, and Asia.