Flora of North America species comparison

(20)40-80 cm, erect, commonly geniculate, sometimes rooting at the lower nodes, glabrous, lower portions sometimes scabridulous.

10-45 cm, erect to decumbent, sometimes with a ring of glandular tissue below the nodes.

sometimes shortly silky pilose basally, hairs less than 2 mm, apices sparsely hairy, hairs to 3 mm;

ligules 0.3-0.5 mm, ciliate;

blades 2-12 cm long, 1-3 mm wide, flat to involute, glabrous, abaxial surfaces sometimes scabridulous, adaxial surfaces scabridulous.

sometimes glandular on the midveins, hairy at the apices, hairs

7-18 cm long, 2-8 cm wide, oblong, open;

primary branches 1-8 cm, appressed or diverging to 40° from the rachises;

pulvini glabrous;

pedicels 0.5-4 mm, diverging or appressed, flexible.

4-20 cm long, 2.2-8(10) cm wide, ovate, open to contracted, rachises sometimes with glandular spots or pits below the nodes, rarely with a glandular ring, glands usually dull, greenish-gray to stramineous;

primary branches 0.5-6 cm, diverging 20-100° from the rachises;

pulvini glabrous or hairy;

pedicels 1-4 mm, stiff, straight, divergent, usually with a distal ring of crateriform glands.

5-12(14) mm long, 0.8-1.2 mm wide, linear-lanceolate, plumbeous to stramineous, with 4-12(14) florets;

disarticulation irregular to basipetal, paleas usually persistent.

4-7(11) mm long, 1.1-2.2 mm wide, narrowly ovate, mostly reddish-purple to greenish, occasionally grayish, with 7-12(20) florets;

disarticulation acropetal, paleas persistent.

oblong to lanceolate, membranous;

lower glumes 1-1.5 mm;

upper glumes 1.3-2 mm;

lemmas 1.5-1.7 mm, ovate, membranous, lateral veins inconspicuous, apices acute to obtuse;

paleas 1.4-1.7 mm, obtuse;

anthers 3, 0.6-0.9 mm, yellowish.

broadly ovate, membranous;

lower glumes 0.9-1.4 mm;

upper glumes 1.2-1.6 mm;

lemmas 1.4-1.8 mm, broadly ovate, membranous, keels occasionally with 1-2 crateriform glands, apices acute to obtuse;

paleas 1.3-1.7 mm, hyaline, keels smooth or scabridulous, scabridities to 0.1 mm, apices obtuse to acute;

anthers 2, 0.2-0.3 mm, reddish-brown.

0.6-0.8 mm, ellipsoid to obovoid, dorsally compressed, sometimes with a shallow adaxial groove, smooth, translucent, mostly light brown, embryo region dark brown with a greenish ring.

0.4-0.7 mm, ellipsoid, not grooved, striate, light brown.

= 40, 60.

= 40.