Flora of North America species comparison

30-100 cm, erect;

nodes (2)3-4(5), glabrous or pubescent;

internodes mostly glabrous, puberulent near the nodes.

65-120(150) cm, erect;

nodes (3)5-7(9), usually pubescent, sometimes glabrous;

internodes pubescent or glabrous.

glabrous or pilose, midrib of the culm leaves not abruptly narrowed just below the collar;

auricles absent;

ligules to 2.5 mm, glabrous, truncate or obtuse, erose or lacerate;

blades (3)10-25(35) cm long, 2-5(6) mm wide, flat, not glaucous, both surfaces usually glabrous, sometimes the adaxial surface pilose.

retrorsely pilose, midrib of the culm leaves not abruptly narrowed just below the collar, collars hairy or glabrous;

auricles absent;

ligules 0.5-2 mm, glabrous, obtuse to truncate, erose;

blades 12-32 cm long, 6-15(19) mm wide, flat, 1 or both surfaces glabrous or hairy.

7-20 cm, open, nodding, often 1-sided;

branches slender, ascending to spreading, often recurved and flexuous.

10-25 cm, open, usually nodding;

branches usually spreading, sometimes ascending, often drooping.

12-38 mm, elliptic to lanceolate, terete to moderately laterally compressed, with (3)5-11(13) florets.

(13)15-30 mm, elliptic to lanceolate, terete to moderately laterally compressed, with (4)5-10(13) florets.

usually pubescent, rarely glabrous;

lower glumes 5-7(9) mm, usually 3-veined, sometimes 1-veined;

upper glumes 6-10 mm, 3-veined, not mucronate;

lemmas 8-14 mm, elliptic, rounded over the midvein, usually pubescent or pilose, margins often with longer hairs, backs and margins rarely glabrous, apices acute or obtuse to truncate, entire;

awns (1)2-3(3.5) mm, straight, arising less than 1.5 mm below the lemma apices;

anthers (1)2-3 mm.

usually pubescent, rarely glabrous;

lower glumes 4-8 mm, 1-veined;

upper glumes 5-10 mm, 3(5)-veined, not mucronate;

lemmas 8-12 mm, lanceolate, rounded over the midvein, backs and margins usually hairy, sometimes glabrous or scabrous, apices subulate to acute, entire;

awns (3)4-7(8) mm, straight, arising less than 1.5 mm below the lemma apices;

anthers 2-4(5) mm.

= 14.

= 14.