Flora of North America species comparison

8-45(70) cm, erect or geniculate, glabrous, occasionally with a few glandular depressions.

(3)9-75 cm, erect or geniculate in the lower portion, not rooting at the lower nodes, glabrous.

mostly glabrous, occasionally glandular, apices hirsute, hairs to 3 mm;

ligules 0.1-0.3 mm, ciliate;

blades 2-15(20) cm long, 1-2.5(4) mm wide, flat, abaxial surfaces glabrous, occasionally with glandular pits along the midrib, adaxial surfaces scabridulous.

hairy on the margins and at the apices, hairs to 4 mm;

ligules 0.2-0.5 mm;

blades 1.8-12(15) cm long, 2-5 mm wide, usually flat, occasionally involute, glabrous or ciliate basally.

4-20(28) cm long, 2-15(18) cm wide, ellipsoid to ovoid, diffuse;

primary branches 1-10 cm, diverging 10-80°(110°) from the rachises, capillary, whorled on the lowest 2 nodes, rarely glandular;

pulvini glabrous or hairy;

pedicels 1-10 mm, flexible, appressed or divergent.

1.7-15 cm long, 0.2-5 cm wide, cylindrical, contracted or open, branches usually forming glomerate lobes, sometimes more open, often interrupted in the lower portion;

primary branches 0.4-4 cm, appressed or diverging to 50° from the rachises;

pulvini usually glabrous, occasionally sparsely pilose;

pedicels 0.1-1 mm, erect, shorter than the spikelets, glabrous.

(2)3.5-6(10) mm long, 0.6-1.4 mm wide, linear-oblong to narrowly ovate, plumbeous, with (3)5-17 florets;

disarticulation acropetal, paleas tardily deciduous, rachillas persisting longer than the paleas.

1.8-3.2 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, elliptical-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, yellowish-brown, sometimes with a purple tinge, with 6-11 florets;

disarticulation basipetal, glumes peristent.

narrowly ovate to lanceolate, hyaline;

lower glumes 0.3-0.6(0.8) mm;

upper glumes 0.7-1.2(1.4) mm;

lemmas 1.2-1.8(2) mm, ovate-lanceolate, membranous to hyaline, grayish-green proximally, reddish-purple distally, lateral veins inconspicuous, apices acute;

paleas 1-1.6 mm, membranous to hyaline, keels scabridulous to scabrous, apices obtuse;

anthers 3, 0.2-0.3 mm, purplish.

ovate to lanceolate, keels scabridulous, veins commonly green, apices acute;

lower glumes 0.7-1.2 mm;

upper glumes 1-1.6 mm;

lemmas 0.8-1.3 mm, elliptical-ovate to lanceolate, membranous, keels scabridulous, lateral veins evident, apices obtuse to acute;

paleas 0.8-1.3 mm, membranous, keels prominently ciliate, cilia 0.2-0.8 mm, apices obtuse to acute;

anthers 2, 0.1-0.3 mm, purplish.

0.5-1 mm, obovoid to prism-shaped, adaxial surfaces flat, smooth to faintly striate, light brown.

0.4-0.5 mm, ovoid, reddish-brown.

= 40.

= 20, 40.