OregonFlora species comparison

intravaginal.

sheaths closed 50% or more of their length;

ligules 1.5–5(10)mm, blades of tillers flat, 1–7(10) mm wide, finely scabrous;

cauline blades 2–10 cm.

erect, eventually open, 10–25(30)cm; the branches eventually spreading or reflexed.

(2)4– 6 mm;

florets 2–5;

rachilla internodes about 1 mm; smooth, softly puberulent or occasionally glabrous.

slightly unequal;

keels and sometimes lateral veins scabrous;

lower glumes 1–3-veined.

nodes terete.

with sparse cobwebby hairs on at least some florets.

lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, 2.5– 3.5 mm, distinctly keeled, evenly crisply puberulent near the base, finely scabrous distally;

margins narrowly hyaline;

tips narrowly acute, rarely purple.

0.2–1 mm.