OregonFlora species comparison

bulbous at the base;

nodes terete.

intravaginal.

intraand extravaginal.

sheaths closed about 25% of their length;

basal sheaths swollen at the base;

ligules 1–3 mm;

blades flat, 1–2.5 mm wide; soon withering.

sheaths closed 33–50% of their length; smooth;

ligules 1.5–3.5 mm;

blades flat, 1.5–4 mm wide.

ovoid, 3–12 cm;

branches 2–5 per node, ascending to spreading.

nodding; open, 4–15 cm;

branches spreading to reflexed, flexuous; (2)3–7 cm, 1–2 per node; smooth to sparsely scabrous, with (3)6–18 spikelets.

3–5 mm;

florets 3–7, commonly all or all but the lowest producing bulblets, occasionally all producing seeds.

lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, 4–6 mm, usually partly to wholly purplish;

florets 3–5.

keels scabrous;

lower glumes 3-veined;

upper glumes shorter than or subequal to lowest lemma.

narrowly to broadly lanceolate;

keels smooth or nearly so;

lower glumes 1-veined;

upper glumes shorter than or subequal to lowest lemma.

with cobwebby hairs or glabrous.

with cobwebby hairs.

lanceolate, 3–4 mm, distinctly keeled, glabrous throughout, or keels and marginal veins shortto long-villous; area between veins glabrous or softly puberulent;

tips acute.

lanceolate, 2–3.5 mm, partly to mostly purple colored, distinctly keeled;

keels short- to long-villous for over 67% of their length; marginal veins short- to long-villous;

lateral veins usually sparsely softly puberulent at least on one side; area between veins smooth;

tips acute, slightly bronze colored or not.

developed and 1.4–2 mm, or aborted late in development, or not developed.

0.6–1 mm.

=21–42.