Flora of North America species comparison

10–85 cm, 1.5–2.5 mm wide basally, 0.6–0.8 mm wide distally.

sheaths tight, green, fronts hyaline, with some cross veins;

ligules to 3.5 mm, usually wider than long;

widest leaf blades 2–4mm wide.

with 4–7 spikes, 1–2.5(–3) cm × 7–10 mm;

proximal internodes 5–10 mm, as long as proximal spikes;

proximal bracts to 2.5 cm;

spikes with 5–10 spreading or ascending perigynia.

pale green becoming dark brown and glossy, veinless or to 7-veined abaxially, 3–4(–4.5) × 1.8–2.5 mm, margins serrulate distally;

beak 0.5–1.5 mm, apical teeth 0.2–0.5 mm.

circular to elliptic-circular, 1.9–2.4 × 1.5–2 mm.

scales brown with green, 3-veined center, ovate, 2.1–4.5 × 1.5–2.2 mm, body as long as perigynium, apex acute or short-awned.

1–3 mm.