OregonFlora species comparison

often decumbent or geniculate.

sheaths glabrous;

blades 3–4 mm wide, glabrous or hairy;

lower surfaces less densely hairy and with shorter hairs than the upper surfaces.

(3)5–9 cm; erect, 1 spikelet per node;

internodes 4–5.5 mm;

disarticulation above the glumes; beneath each floret.

(9)10–15(17)mm, appressed; (3)4–5 florets;

rachillas hairy;

hairs about 0.4 mm.

8–12 × 1.2– 2 mm; about 75% as long as to equaling the adjacent lemmas, narrowly ovate to obovate, often purplish, glabrous or occasionally scabrous;

keels smooth but occasionally scabrous, 3(5)-veined, glabrous;

margins unequal; the wider margin 0.3– 1 mm wide, usually widest in the distal 33%;

tips acute to rounded, often awned;

glume awns; if present; to 2 mm.

(6.4)8–9.5 mm, glabrous to pubescent; all similar, usually awned;

lemma awns; if present, 0.5–3 mm; straight.

0.7–1.3 mm.