OregonFlora species comparison

blades to 25 cm on sterile shoots; much reduced on culms, 2.5–5.5 mm wide, narrowed at the base; dorsal surfaces glabrous and shiny; ventral surfaces hairy; flag leaves 1–3(6)cm × 3–4.5 mm.

(5)7.5–15 cm; open.

4–6.3 mm.

4–6.3 mm; ovate, exceeding the florets, glabrous; hyaline and more or less transparent, white to light brown, tinged with green or purple on the back near the base.

lower lemmas staminate, 3–5 × 1.1–1.5 mm; length/width ratio usually less than 4; more or less hairy all over, with hairs 0.5–1 mm on margins; to 0.5 mm toward the tips;

tips acute to awned, awns of lower lemmas 0.1–1 mm; upper lemmas bisexual, 2.9– 3.5 mm; shiny; hard; hairy distally; the hairs 0.5–1 mm and with bases strongly divergent from the lemma surface; acute.

1.6–2.1 mm in lower, staminate florets, 1.2–1.3 mm in upper; bisexual florets.