Flora of North America species comparison

30-80 cm, erect, or decumbent and rooting at the nodes.

6-12 cm long, 5-10 mm wide, usually folded, apices obtuse.

with (6)8-15 branches;

branches 4-10 cm, straight, somewhat stiff.

1.5-2.1 mm;

florets 2.

1.1-1.3 mm, linear-lanceolate, acute;

upper glumes 1.3-1.5 mm, oblanceolate, apices truncate or bilobed, mucronate, mucros to 0.4 mm;

calluses with a few short hairs;

lowest lemmas 1.7-2 mm, lanceolate to ovate, not strongly keeled, midveins glabrous, lateral veins with widely spreading, white, 1-2 mm hairs, apices acute to mucronate;

second lemmas 1.1-1.2 mm, broadly cuneate, apices truncate.

about 1 mm.

= 40.