OregonFlora species comparison

glabrous with elliptical; yellowish, glandular pits below the nodes.

sheaths with elliptical glandular pits and with sparse hairs to 2 mm;

blades 2–12 cm × 1–3 mm, bases with glandular pits.

4–10(15) × 0.5–2 cm, narrowly elliptic, contracted; dense, glandular pits on inflorescence axis and branches;

primary branches 1 per node, appressed or occasionally diverging to 30° from the inflorescence axis;

pedicels 1.4–10 mm, appressed or divergent;

disarticulation acropetal.

3.6–7.5 × 1.2–2 mm; light yellowish or occasionally reddish purple mottled, 6–11(14) florets.

ovate to lanceolate; hyaline;

lower glumes (0.7)0.9– 1.4 mm;

upper glumes 1.2–1.8 mm.

0.5–0.8 mm.

1.5–2.2 mm; ovate; hyaline; straw-colored;

veins greenish and conspicuous;

tips acute.

1.2–2 mm; hyaline, persistent;

keels minutely scabrous.

3, 0.2–0.3 mm; purplish.