OregonFlora species comparison

decumbent and rooting at the lower nodes, often branched, glabrous or lower internodes hairy.

sheaths with spreading hairs on the margins; collars; and tips;

hairs 0.1–0.6 mm;

blades 0.5–2.5 cm × 1–2 mm.

terminal and axillary, 1–3.5 × 0.7–2.5 cm; ovate; open to congested;

primary branches 0.1–0.5 cm, appressed to strongly divergent, glabrous;

pedicels 0.2–1 mm, ciliate;

disarticulation acropetal.

4–13 × 1–1.5 mm, loosely overlapping; greenish yellow to purplish, 12–35 florets.

linear-lanceolate to lanceolate; hyaline;

lower glumes 0.4–0.7 mm;

upper glumes 0.8–1.2 mm.

0.3–0.5 mm, ellipsoid.

1.4–2 mm; ovate, strongly 3-veined;

veins greenish;

tips acuminate.

0.7–1.2 mm; hyaline, persistent;

keels minutely scabrous; acute to obtuse.

2, 0.2–0.3 mm; brownish.

=20.