OregonFlora species comparison

erect to geniculate.

sheaths smooth;

blades 10–30 cm × (2)5–8 mm; flat or the margins involute; smooth or sometimes sparsely hairy.

5–20 cm × 0.5 mm without awns, 30–70 mm wide with awns; erect, with 2(3) spikelets per node;

internodes to about 10 mm;

disarticulation in the rachises; tardy.

10–15 mm; (1)3–5 florets.

6.5–12 × 0.5–1 mm, narrowly lanceolate, 3(5)-veined;

glume awns (0)25–35+ mm.

8.5–14 mm, glabrous, scabrous or short-hairy;

lemma awns 10–50 mm, outcurving.

1.1–2.6 mm.