Flora of North America species comparison

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

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

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

branches 2-11.5 cm.

1.5-2.1 mm;

florets 2-3.

1-1.2 mm.

glumes 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.

= 40.