Flora of North America species comparison

14–89(–101) cm × 0.3–1.1 mm wide, smooth or papillose.

very slender, nodding, 15–60 cm, exceeding leaves, scabrid.

ligule on distal leaf 0.9–2.2 mm, as long as wide;

blades 0.6–4.2 mm wide, widest blade 2.4–4.2 mm wide.

basal sheaths pale brown abaxially, inner band white-hyaline, truncate at summit;

ligules broader than long;

blades mid to dark green, flat, 15–30 × 0.75–1.5 mm, scabrid.

12–56 mm;

proximal internode 6–34 mm;

proximal bracts 6–49 mm, awn 7–46 mm;

spikes (2–)3–5, longest ones 2–5, usually gynecandrous;

proximal spikes with 1–2 staminate and (5–)7–12 pistillate flowers, 5.2–11(–13) × (2.1–)3.7–6.9 mm;

terminal spikes usually with 1–3(–5) staminate and (7–)9–13(–16) pistillate flowers, 6.8–13 × 3.8–8.1 mm.

1.5–2.5 cm × 3–5 mm;

proximal bract 5–20 mm;

distal bracts scalelike.

2–4(–5), proximal separate, distal aggregate, globose, 3–5 × 2–4 mm.

erect to ascending, green to pale brown, 0–5-veined abaxially, usually veinless adaxially, narrowly ovate, 4–4.9(–5.2) × 1.3–1.5(–1.6) mm, 2.9–3.8 times as long as wide, apex gradually tapering;

beak 1.4–2.1 mm, 0.32–0.4 times as long as perigynia, margins serrulate, apex entire or bidentulate, teeth to 0.2 mm, 0–0.05 times as long as perigynia.

1–6, pale green, often brown or even purplish in age, plump, 2.25–3 × 1.3–1.5 mm, membranous, shiny.

1.8–2.2 × 1.2–1.5 mm wide, 1.3–1.8 times as long as wide.

red-brown, oblong-elliptic, 1.5–1.75 × 1 mm, glossy.

scales with colorless or stramineous margins, 3–4.5 × 1.6–2.2 mm, body 2.8–4.2 mm, apex acuminate to short-awned, awn to 0.6 mm.

scales white-hyaline with green center, ovate, narrower and shorter than perigynia, apex acuminate.

scales with colorless or stramineous margins, 3–5.3 × 1.2–1.6 mm, apex acute to acuminate or occasionally short-awned to 0.3 mm.

(1.8–)1.9–2.2 mm.

1.9–2 mm.

= 70.