OregonFlora species comparison

0.4–0.7(1.1) mm thick;

internodes mostly glabrous, pubescent just below the lower nodes;

nodes glabrous.

sheaths glabrous, sometimes minutely scabrous;

ligules 1–5 mm; acute, glabrous;

blades 7–60 cm × 0.2–1.5 mm, usually convolute; stiff, glabrous, minutely scabrous.

loosely contracted, 8–50 cm, often partly enclosed by the uppermost leaf sheath at maturity;

branches ascending, 2–8 cm;

pedicels 1–11 mm.

subequal, narrowly lanceolate, 5–13 × 0.5–1.2 mm, glabrous, awned.

somewhat laterally compressed.

blunt, 0.2–0.5 mm, with appressed hairs to approximately 25–33% as long as the lemmas.

(1.5)2.5–3 ×approximately 0.5 mm; widest at about mid-length, covered with minute bumps;

midveins pubescent on the lower 75%; crowns 0.1–0.2 × 0.2–0.25 mm; rims with hairs less than 0.5 mm; awns arising near the center of the lemma tip; more or less wavy, obscurely bent twice, 45–100 mm.

3, 1.2–1.5 mm.