OregonFlora species comparison

0.4–0.7 mm thick; smooth or minutely scabrous.

basal sheaths glabrous; smooth or minutely scabrous;

collars glabrous, ligules of basal leaves 0.1–1 mm, those of upper leaves 1–2 mm;

blades 3–9 cm, usually folded to involute and about 0.5 mm in diameter, 0.5–1.5 mm wide when flat; stiff;

outer surface smooth or scabrous;

inner surface scabrous.

2.5–7 × 0.5–2 cm;

branches appressed; longest branches 1–2 cm.

6–10 × 0.6–0.9 mm, lanceolate, not sac-like at the base.

4.5–6 mm long, 0.7–1 mm thick; more or less round in cross section.

0.3–0.8 mm; blunt.

6–7 mm, densely and evenly covered with long; soft; straight hairs 2.5–3.5 mm;

tips with membranous lobes 0.6–1.9 mm;

lemma awns 4–11 mm, deciduous; straight or bent once, scabrous.

as long as or slightly longer than the lemmas.

1.5–2 mm, lacking hairs at the tip.

=32.