Flora of North America species comparison

to 120 cm tall, bases long-decumbent and rooting at the lower nodes.

15-80 m, decumbent, rooting and branching at the lower nodes.

with papillose-based hairs;

ligules 2.5-3.5 mm;

blades 4-28 cm long, 4-12 mm wide, scabrous, usually with some scattered papillose-based hairs on the base of the adaxial surfaces, sometimes with hairs all over.

pilose, with papillose-based hairs;

ligules 1.8-2 mm;

blades 4-15 cm long, 3-10 mm wide, pilose, with papillose-based hairs.

with 3-11 spikelike primary branches in 1-several whorls, rachises to 6 cm;

primary branches 5-15 cm, axes wing-margined, wings more than 1/2 as wide as the midribs, lower and middle portions bearing spikelets in unequally pedicellate pairs;

secondary branches absent;

shorter pedicels 0.3-0.8 mm;

longer pedicels 1.7-2.7 mm.

with 5-18 spikelike primary branches on 2.5-5 cm rachises, lower branches usually verticillate;

primary branches 3.5-10 cm long, 0.3-0.5 mm wide, narrowly wing-margined, wings less than 1/2 as wide as the midribs, bearing spikelets in unequally pedicellate pairs;

secondary branches often present, often highly divergent;

shorter pedicels 0.2-0.5 mm;

longer pedicels 0.8-1.1 mm.

2.4-3.5 mm, homomorphic, ovate.

1.5-2 mm long, about 0.5 mm wide, elliptic-lanceolate.

absent or to 0.1 mm;

upper glumes 0.2-1.3 mm, 1/6 - 1/3 as long as the spikelets, 1-3-veined, margins and apices with appressed, white hairs about 0.5 mm, truncate or bilobed;

lower lemmas (5)7-veined, veins smooth or scabrous only over the distal 1/3, unequally spaced, margins and lateral intercostal regions silky-ciliate;

upper lemmas tan or gray when immature, brown at maturity, acuminate;

anthers 0.6-1.3 mm.

absent or to 0.2 mm;

upper glumes 1.5-1.7 mm, usually to 3/4 as long as the spikelets, 3-veined, villous between the veins, hairs tapering or parallel-sided;

lower lemmas about as long as the spikelets, 7-veined, veins unequally spaced, 2 veins crowded together near each margin, 3 inner veins well-separated, pubescent on the margins and between the inner lateral veins, hairs about 0.2 mm, sometimes sparse, lateral veins smooth throughout or scabridulous only on the distal 1/3;

upper lemmas 1.5-1.7 mm, usually gray at maturity, sometimes brown;

anthers about 0.5 mm.

= 70, 72.

= 18.