Flora of North America species comparison

15-80 cm, erect;

nodes glabrous.

80-110 cm, erect;

nodes glabrous.

glabrous, pubescent distally;

ligules 0.5-0.8 mm;

blades 7-23 cm long, 1.5-8 mm wide, flat.

glabrous, sparsely pubescent apically;

ligules 1-2.9 mm;

blades 9-41 cm long, 3-7 mm wide, mostly involute, pubescent above, glabrous below.

terminal, usually composed of a pair of branches, a third branch sometimes present below the terminal pair;

branches 2.5-12.7 cm, diverging to spreading, often arcuate, persistent;

branch axes 0.2-0.8 mm wide, glabrous, margins scabrous, terminating in a reduced spikelet.

terminal, with 1-5(10) racemosely arranged branches;

branches 1.9-11.4 cm, erect to divergent, terminating in a spikelet;

branch axes 0.4-0.7 mm wide, very narrowly winged, scabrous.

1.3-1.9 mm long, 0.8-1.1 mm wide, solitary, appressed to the branch axes, ovate, stramineous.

1.6-2.2 mm long, 1.1-1.3 mm wide, paired, imbricate, appressed to the branch axes, elliptic-obovate to ovate.

absent;

upper glumes pilose on the margins, veinless or 2-3-veined;

lower lemmas glabrous, veinless or 2-3-veined;

upper florets whitish to golden yellow.

absent;

upper glumes shortly pubescent, 5-veined, margins entire;

lower lemmas glabrous or shortly pubescent, lacking ribs over the veins, 3-veined, margins entire;

upper florets 1.4-2 mm, white to stramineous.

0.9-1.1 mm, white to yellow.

= 18, 20, 40, 80.

= 60.