OregonFlora species comparison

bent at the base or decumbent.

sheaths glabrous or pubescent;

blades flat; to 35 cm × 2–16.5 mm, mostly glabrous; the upper surfaces with a few long hairs near base.

1.5– 12 cm;

branches 2–7, 4–13 cm;

spikelets in rows on one side of rachis.

dorsiventrally compressed, paired, 2.3–4 × 1.7–2.5 mm, 2 florets.

1;

lower glume absent;

upper glumes 2.3–4 mm, 5–7-veined, with long hairs on the margins.

2–2.3 mm, white to brown.

lower lemmas like upper glumes; upper lemmas 2–3 mm; straw-colored; hard;

tips acuminate; awnless, glabrous.

1–1.2 mm.

=20, 40, 50.