Flora of North America species comparison

12–60 cm, 1–1.3 mm wide basally, 0.5–1 mm wide distally.

10–90 cm.

sheaths tight, green, fronts hyaline;

ligules less than 2 mm, wider than long;

widest leaf blades 1–3 mm wide, papillose adaxially.

blades 1–3.5 mm wide.

with 5–10 crowded spikes, 0.5–3 cm × 5–8 mm;

proximal bracts to 1(–3) cm;

spikes with 2–10 ascending perigynia.

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.

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.

brown, abaxial face 7–15-veined proximally, otherwise veinless or obscurely veined, 3.3–4 × 1.8–2.3 mm, base of perigynium spongy, thickened and longitudinally striate adaxially, spongy region 0.7–1 mm, margins serrulate to subentire distally;

beak 0.5–1 mm, apical teeth 0.1–0.3 mm.

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.

ovate to circular, 1.6–2.7 × 1.5–2 mm.

obovoid, 1.7–2.2 × 1–1.3 mm.

scales hyaline or pale brown with green 1–3-veined center, ovate, 2.8–3.2 × 1.8–2.6 mm, body slightly shorter than to length of perigynium, apex acute to short-awned.

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

1.8–2.3 mm.

1.5–3 mm.

straight or slightly twisted, 0.05 mm wide.

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