Flora of North America species comparison

10-45(70) cm, geniculate, often rooting at the lower nodes, glabrous or puberulent below the nodes;

internodes often smooth, shiny, glabrous.

30-110 cm tall, 1-1.5 mm thick, stiffly erect, much branched above the middle, internodes mostly smooth, polished, glabrous or puberulent immediately below the nodes, elliptic in cross section and strongly keeled.

shorter than the internodes, glabrous for most of their length, margins shortly (0.3-1.2 mm) pubescent distally, not becoming spirally coiled when old;

ligules 0.2-0.5 mm, truncate, erose, ciliate;

blades (1)3-10 cm long, 1-4.5 mm wide, flat, smooth or scabridulous.

scabridulous, slightly keeled;

ligules 0.6-1.5(1.7) mm, membranous, truncate, lacerate-ciliolate;

blades 2-17 cm long, 2-5 mm wide, flat, usually scabrous or scabridulous, occasionally smooth.

3-15 cm long, 1-1.6 cm wide, contracted, often interrupted below;

branches 0.4-5.5 cm, appressed or diverging up to 30° from the rachises, spikelet-bearing to the base;

pedicels 0.1-4 mm, scabrous to hirsute;

disarticulation above the glumes.

0.8-16 cm long, 0.3-1.8 cm wide, lobed, dense;

branches 0.2-2.5 cm, appressed;

pedicels absent or to 1 mm, strigose.

1.8-2.8 mm, borne singly.

3-8 mm.

unequal, shorter than the florets, thin and membranous throughout, unawned;

lower glumes lacking or rudimentary, veinless, rounded and often erose;

upper glumes 0.1-0.3 mm, veinless;

lemmas 1.8-2.8 mm, oblong-elliptic, mostly scabrous, calluses hairy, hairs to 0.8 mm, veins greenish, lower 1/4 of the midveins with a few appressed hairs, apices acute to acuminate, awned, awns 1.5-5 mm, straight;

paleas 1.8-2.8 mm, oblong-elliptic, acute to acuminate;

anthers 0.2-0.5 mm, yellow.

subequal, 3-8 mm (including the awns), about 1.3-2 times longer than the lemmas, smooth or scabridulous distally, 1-veined, acuminate and awned, awns to 5 mm;

lemmas 2.2-3.8 mm, lanceolate, pilose on the calluses, lower 1/2 of the midveins, and margins, hairs to 1.2 mm, apices scabridulous, acuminate, unawned or awned, awns to 1 mm;

paleas 2.2-3.8(4.5) mm, lanceolate, intercostal region loosely pilose on the lower 1/2, apices acuminate;

anthers 0.4-0.8 mm, yellowish.

1-1.4 mm, fusiform, brownish.

(1.2)1.4-2.3 mm, fusiform, brown.

= 40, 42.

= 40.