OregonFlora species comparison

mostly basal or evenly distributed;

ligules 0.5–4 mm;

blades 1–5 mm wide.

dense; spike-like, often interrupted basally; (5)20–30(50) × (0.5)1– 2.5(5)cm, green to purplish or tawny, usually shiny and silvery;

branches less than 2(3.5) mm;

spikelet-bearing to the base.

5–7.5 mm, 2(3) florets.

lanceolate; smooth or sometimes sparsely scabrous or pilose;

margins widely scarious;

tips acute to acuminate or apiculate;

lower glumes 3–4(5.5) mm;

upper glumes 4–7 mm; as long as or longer than the lowest florets; less than twice as wide as the lower glumes.

glabrous.

narrowly to broadly lanceolate, 3–6(7) mm, glabrous, minutely scabrous, or pilose;

tips bifid;

teeth usually less than 1 mm, awned; awns bent and basally twisted, 3–8 mm, arising in the upper 33% of the lemmas.

0.7–1.4 mm.

=14, 28, 42.