Flora of North America species comparison

15-35(55) cm, prostrate to strongly decumbent, at least at the base;

nodes glabrous.

glabrous or shortly pilose;

auricles usually present, 0.5-1 mm;

ligules 0.2-0.4(0.7) mm, usually truncate, occasionally acute, entire to erose;

blades 1.5-4 mm wide, usually involute, adaxial surfaces prominently ribbed.

3.5-10 cm long, 0.8-1.2 cm wide excluding the awns, 3-6 cm wide including the awns, usually with 1 spikelet per node, occasionally with 2 spikelets at the lower nodes;

internodes 2.5-5(7) mm long, 0.5-1 mm wide, glabrous, mostly smooth, edges scabrous.

9-15 mm long, 6-12 mm wide, appressed to ascending, with 3-6 florets;

rachilla internodes 0.8-1.3 mm, scabridulous;

disarticulation initially at the rachis nodes, subsequently beneath each floret.

4-9 mm long, 0.5-1 mm wide, mostly glabrous, midveins scabrous, 3-5-veined, entire, tapering into a divergent, 12-30 mm awn;

lemmas 7-10 mm, usually glabrous, occasionally scabridulous, awned, awns 15-30 mm, divergent, scabridulous;

paleas usually longer than the lemmas, apices ciliate, truncate or the veins extending into teeth, teeth about 0.5 mm;

anthers 1-1.6 mm.

= 28.