OregonFlora species comparison

spreading to erect.

blades to 65 cm × 5–30 mm, glabrous but occasionally sparsely hirsute.

panicles, 5–25 cm; the primary branches 1.5–10 cm and bearing short inconspicuous side branches, papillose-based hairs sparse to common; to 5 mm and sometimes longer than the spikelets.

2.5–4 × 1.1–2.3 mm.

lower glumes about 50% as long as the spikelets;

upper glumes about as long as the spikelets; the longer hairs of the lateral veins 0.5–0.7 mm.

1.3–2.2 × 1–1.8 mm; ovoid or oblong; brownish.

lower lemmas awnless to awned, sometimes within the same inflorescence;

lemma awns 0–50 mm; upper lemmas about as long as the spikelet, broadly ovate to elliptical; the tough portion rounded distally with an abrupt transition to the early-withering acuminate membranous tip;

tip marked off from the leathery portion by a line of tiny hairs visible at 25×.

lower paleas about as long as the lemmas.

0.5– 1 mm.