OregonFlora species comparison

sheaths glabrous or loosely pubescent and becoming glabrous;

blades 15–30 cm × 1–12 mm;

lower surfaces pilose or glabrous;

upper surfaces pilose.

5–23 × 2.5–12 cm; open, nodding;

branches spreading to ascending; lower branches slightly drooping; some pedicels longer than their spikelets.

10–20 mm; ovoid-lanceolate or ovate, laterally compressed, not purple-tinged, with 4–9(10) florets;

floret bases visible at maturity;

rachilla internodes visible at maturity.

scabrous or glabrous;

lower glumes 4–6 mm, 3–5-veined;

upper glumes 6–7 mm, 7-veined.

6.5– 8.5(10) × 1.7–2.5 mm, elliptic; leathery, rounded over the back; backs glabrous, sometimes pubescent, scabrous to puberulent on the margins and near the tips, obscurely 7-veined;

veins usually not raised and thickened;

margins smoothly curved, inrolled at maturity;

tips acute to obtuse; bifid, with teeth less than 1 mm, awned;

lemma awns (0)3–6(9.5)mm; straight or flexuous, arising less than 1.5 mm below the lemma tips.

1–3 mm.

=14, 28.