Flora of North America species comparison

45-125 cm tall, 1.8-3 mm thick, solitary or few together.

35-140 cm tall, 1.5-3 mm thick, several together.

exceeded by the spikes, often basally concentrated;

sheaths glabrous or hairy, hairs 0.5-1 mm;

auricles to 1 mm;

ligules 0.2-1.3 mm, truncate, erose;

blades 10-35 cm long, 3.5-10 mm wide, flat to involute, usually stiffly ascending, adaxial surfaces usually scabrous, often also sparsely hairy, hairs to 0.8 mm, most abundant proximally, veins 11-27, closely spaced, subequal, prominently ribbed.

exceeded by the spikes;

auricles to 1 mm;

ligules 0.1-1 mm, truncate;

blades 1-5 mm wide, flat to strongly involute, adaxial surfaces glabrous or sparsely to -9 prominently ribbed, subequal long, 4-11 mm wide, nodes below midspike with 1-2(3) spikelets, distal nodes with 1 spikelet;

internodes 3.5-9 mm, surfaces glabrous, edges scabrous or strigillose.

5-20 cm long, 5-15 mm wide, with 2 spikelets at midspike, sometimes 1 or 3 at other nodes;

internodes 5-11.5 mm, usually mostly smooth and glabrous, sometimes strigillose distally, edges ciliate, cilia to 0.4 mm.

10-22 mm, with 3-7 florets.

9-21 mm, pedicellate, pedicels to 1 mm, with 3-6 florets.

5-16 mm long, 0.5-1.2 mm wide, bases not overlapping, glabrous and smooth proximally, scabrous distally, tapering from below midlength to the subulate apices, stiff, keeled, the central portion thicker than the margins, 1(3)-veined, veins inconspicuous at midlength;

calluses usually glabrous, occasionally with a few hairs, hairs about 0.1 mm;

lemmas 5-12 mm, usually glabrous, occasionally sparsely hairy, hairs to 0.3 mm, apices acute, usually awned, awns to 3 mm;

anthers 3-6 mm, dehiscent.

unequal to subequal, to 12.5 mm long, 0.5-3.2 mm wide, subulate, stiff, keeled, the central portion thicker than the margins, tapering from below midlength, 0-1(3)-veined, veins inconspicuous at midlength;

lower glumes 0-12 mm;

upper glumes 3.5-12.5 mm;

lemmas 7-12.5 mm, usually glabrous, sometimes sparsely strigillose, unawned or awned, awns to 2.5 mm;

anthers 2.5-7.5 mm, dehiscent.

= 28.