OregonFlora species comparison

usually somewhat decumbent.

sheaths glabrous and smooth but occasionally minutely scabrous or hairy;

blades 4–12 mm wide;

upper surfaces pilose or villous but occasionally puberulent or minutely scabrous.

6–20 cm, nodding to pendent, 2 spikelets per node or rarely with 3 at some nodes;

internodes 3–10(12) mm;

disarticulation above the glumes and beneath each floret.

12–20 mm, appressed to divergent, 2–4(7) florets.

(4.5)7–10(11) × 0.7– 1.5 mm, bases flat, occasionally hard for 0.5 mm;

veins usually evident, linear-lanceolate; entire, widening or parallel-sided above the base, 3–5-veined, usually scabridulous to scabrous;

veins occasionally hirsute beyond mid-length;

margins hyaline or scarious;

glume awns 1–10 mm; straight.

7–14 mm; smooth or minutely scabrous;

lateral veins hairy;

margins hairy beyond mid-length; marginal hairs 0.5–1 mm and longer than those elsewhere on the lemma;

lemma awns (2)8–30 mm, flexuous to moderately outcurving.

2–3.5 mm.