OregonFlora species comparison

rooting at the lower nodes, branched near the base.

sheaths glabrous; smooth;

ligules to 5 mm;

blades 2–13 cm × 1–6 mm.

sheaths open;

ligules membranous or hyaline; erose, ciliate;

blades flat to convolute.

ovoid-oblong to pyramidal, interrupted, 2–10 cm;

pedicels not developed;

stipes 0.1–0.6 mm.

dense panicles, continuous or interrupted below;

disarticulation at the base of the stipe.

borne on a stipe connected to a pedicel or directly to the panicle branch, laterally compressed, 1 floret;

rachilla not prolonged beyond the floret.

1.5–2 mm, scabrous on the back and keel;

tips obtuse to truncate; awnless.

lanceolate, 2; longer than the floret, bases not fused;

tips entire to emarginate or bilobed, usually awned;

glume awns arising from between the lobes, sometimes at the tip, curved, glabrous.

slightly flattened, broadly ellipsoid to oblong-ellipsoid.

approximately 1 mm;

tips erose; awnless.

1–3(5)-veined, often awned;

lemma awns terminal, subterminal, or arising from just above mid-length.

0.3–0.5 mm.

3.

33% to as long as the lemmas.

=28.