OregonFlora species comparison

blades flat to involute, 1–7 mm wide.

panicles open at maturity, 2.5–20 cm; lower branches horizontal to descending;

spikelets usually confined to distal 67% of the branches.

2.5–7 mm, 2–7 florets.

rounded over the back;

veins obscure;

tips acute to truncate;

lower glumes 0.4–1.3 mm;

upper glumes 0.9–1.8 mm.

1.5–2(2.2)mm, 5-veined;

veins obscure, not extending to the margins;

margins near the tip hyaline and often yellowish, uniformly and densely scabrous;

tips widely obtuse to truncate; entire; awnless.

0.4–0.8 mm.

=14, 28, 42.