OregonFlora species comparison

sheaths and collars smooth, papillose to scabrous between veins;

margins minutely scabrous distally;

blades (3.7)7–40 cm × (1.5)2–5(8) mm; flat, glaucous;

both surfaces scabrous or smooth.

6.3–15 × 0.7–5 cm, loosely contracted; erect to slightly nodding; shiny green, purple, or brown;

branches 1.5–6 cm, scabrous;

spikelet-bearing to the base or nearly so.

3.2–5.8 mm, keeled, scabrous on keel, scabridulous elsewhere.

with hairs 1.7–3 mm; about 50% as long as the lemma; abundant.

3.1–3.7(4)mm, 0.5–1.5 mm shorter than the glumes;

lemma awns 3.4–5.5 mm, attached to the lower portion of the lemma, exserted 0.5– 2.3 mm beyond the glumes, easily distinguished from the callus hairs, strongly bent.

(1)2–3.5 mm.