Flora of North America species comparison

50-100 cm, erect.

20-100 cm, erect, or decumbent and rooting at the nodes.

to 30 cm long, to 8.2 mm wide, apices acute.

(2)5-8(26) cm long, 4-10 mm wide, folded, apices obtuse.

with 1-3 branches;

branches 5-13 cm.

with (1)4-6(11) branches;

branches 2-11.5 cm.

3-3.7 mm;

florets 3.

1.5-2.1 mm;

florets 2-3.

1.8-2 mm, apices acute to obtuse;

upper glumes 2.2-3.1 mm, oblanceolate, truncate to occasionally bilobed, lobes obtuse, awned from between the lobes, awns 0.5-1 mm;

calluses with tufts of hairs, hairs to 0.6 mm;

lowest lemmas 2.9-3.7 mm, ovate, tan to light brown at maturity, lateral veins and keels with appressed, whitish to golden hairs, hairs to 0.7 mm, apices acute, awned, awns 0.4-0.6 mm, arising from just below the apices;

second lemmas 1.5-2.6 mm, obovate, acute, mucronate.

1-1.7 mm, apices acute;

upper glumes 1.5-1.8 mm, obovate, bilobed, lobes acute or obtuse, awned from between the lobes, awns 0.3-0.9 mm;

calluses glabrous or with a few hairs, hairs to 0.3 mm;

lowest lemmas 1.5-2 mm, ovate, dark brown at maturity, lateral veins and keels with appressed, brown hairs, hairs to 0.4 mm, apices mucronate;

second lemmas about 1 mm, broadly cuneate, occasionally mucronate, apices rounded or truncate.

about 1.7 mm.

1-1.2 mm.

= unknown.

= 40.