Flora of North America species comparison

30-75 cm, erect, glabrous below.

20-65 cm, erect, viscid.

mostly glabrous, hairy at the apices, hairs to 4 mm;

ligules 0.2-0.3 mm;

blades 10-25(40) cm long, 1-5 mm wide, involute, glabrous abaxially, scabridulous adaxially, sometimes also sparsely pilose.

usually viscid, hairy at the apices and on the collars and margins, hairs to 6 mm;

ligules 0.1-0.3 mm;

blades 5-18 cm long, 2-4(5) mm wide, flat to involute, sometimes viscid, densely hairy behind the ligules, hairs to 8 mm.

(3)5-30 cm long, 1-15 cm wide, from narrowly oblong, glomerate, and interrupted below to ovate and open;

primary branches 0.5-12(16) cm, appressed or diverging up to 40° from the rachises, stiff;

pulvini glabrous or sparsely hairy;

pedicels 0-1(3) mm, appressed, flattened.

18-35 cm long, 10-30 cm wide, broadly ovate, open;

primary branches 3-18 cm, diverging 10-90° from the rachises, stiff, viscid, naked basally;

pulvini hairy, hairs to 6 mm;

pedicels 0.2-1.2 mm, appressed.

6-16(23) cm long, 2.4-5 mm wide, ovate to linear-elliptic, flattened, stramineous, with reddish-purple margins or completely reddish-purple, with 10-45 florets;

disarticulation basipetal, florets falling intact and before the glumes.

3.5-6(7.6) mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, linear-lanceolate, stramineous to reddish-purple, with 4-10 florets;

disarticulation basipetal, glumes persistent.

ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, membranous;

lower glumes 1.7-3 mm;

upper glumes 2.2-4 mm, apices acuminate;

lemmas 2-6 mm, ovate, membranous to leathery, apices usually acuminate or attenuate, sometimes acute;

paleas 1.5-3 mm, membranous to leathery, narrower than the lemmas, apices obtuse, sometimes bifid;

anthers 2, 0.2-0.5 mm, brownish.

lanceolate, membranous;

lower glumes 0.9-1.8 mm;

upper glumes 1.2-2 mm, 1-3-veined;

lemmas 1.5-2.2 mm, ovate to lanceolate, membranous, 3-veined, lateral veins evident, apices acute;

paleas 1.2-2 mm, hyaline, not wider than the lemmas, apices obtuse;

anthers 3, 0.2-0.4 mm, purplish.

0.8-1.3 mm, ellipsoid, somewhat laterally flattened, smooth, reddish-brown.

0.6-0.8 mm, ellipsoid, terete in cross section, neither ridged nor grooved, faintly striate, reddish-brown.

= 40.

= 40.