Flora of North America species comparison

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

45-90(120) cm, erect.

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

to 21 cm long, to 8 mm wide, acute, occasionally scabridulous basally.

with (6)8-15 branches;

branches 4-10 cm, straight, somewhat stiff.

with (3)4-9 branches;

branches 3.3-15.5 cm.

1.5-2.1 mm;

florets 2.

2.6-3 mm;

florets 2-3.

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.

to 2.2 mm, apices obtuse or bifid;

upper glumes 2.2-2.8 mm, narrowly oblong, apices bilobed, lobes usually acute, occasionally truncate, awned from between the lobes, awns 0.5-1.8 mm;

calluses with a few hairs, hairs to 0.6 mm;

lowest lemmas 2.3-3 mm, ovate, medium to dark brown at maturity, lateral veins and keels with slightly spreading, golden to tawny hairs, hairs to 0.7 mm, apices acute, awned, awns 0.7-1.2 mm;

second lemmas 1.4-2.1 mm, obovate to oblanceolate, apices truncate, awned, awns 0.5-0.8 mm.

about 1 mm.

about 1.5 mm.

= 40.

= unknown.