OregonFlora species comparison

erect, glabrous or pilose.

somewhat basally concentrated;

sheaths retrorsely hairy;

blades 10– 15 cm × 2.5–5 mm; flat, scabrous below; smooth above.

(4)10–25 cm × 2–3 mm excluding the awns, 3–7 mm wide including the awns, 1 spikelet per node;

internodes 2.5–11 mm;

disarticulation at the rachis nodes.

10–25 mm excluding the awns, 2–6 florets.

6–8 × 0.8–1.2 mm, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate; (1)3(5)-veined;

veins scabrous;

tips sometimes toothed;

glume awns 0–5(13) mm.

9.5–13 mm, glabrous; smooth proximally, scabrous distally; the lowest lemma often reduced and glume-like;

lemma awns 6–20(45)mm; straight to outcurving.

1.5–2.6 mm, usually indehiscent.