Flora of North America species comparison

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

10–90 cm.

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.

blades 1–3.5 mm wide.

1.5–2.5 cm × 3–5 mm;

proximal bract 5–20 mm;

distal bracts scalelike.

3–12(–22) cm;

proximal internodes 10–60(–100) mm;

peduncles of proximal spikes to 8 cm;

proximal bracts with blades 5–140 mm, sheaths cylindric, 5–25(–35) mm, mouth 0.9–1.5 mm wide.

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

3–8;

lateral spikes androgynous or pistillate, rarely some entirely staminate, the proximal inclined or pendent, 5–30 × 3–7 mm;

terminal spike staminate or androgynous, 10–28 × 1.8–4 mm.

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

ascending, pale yellow proximally, brown or black distally, 3–9-veined, lanceolate, 3.5–5.5 × 1.1–2.4 mm, margins ciliate-serrulate distally, apex tapered, shortly setose, sometimes setae confined to veins, or subglabrous;

beak indistinct, to 0.5(–1) mm.

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

obovoid, 1.7–2.2 × 1–1.3 mm.

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

scales brown to black, oblong-obovate, 3–5.8 × 1.1–2 mm, apex obtuse to acute, sometimes shortly awned.

scales brown or black with hyaline margins, oblong-ovate, 3.1–6.2 × 1–3 mm.

1.5–3 mm.

= 70.