Flora of North America species comparison

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

50-100 cm, erect.

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

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

with (6)8-15 branches;

branches 4-10 cm, straight, somewhat stiff.

with 1-3 branches;

branches 5-13 cm.

1.5-2.1 mm;

florets 2.

3-3.7 mm;

florets 3.

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.

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.

about 1 mm.

about 1.7 mm.

= 40.

= unknown.