Flora of North America species comparison

15-80 cm, erect;

nodes glabrous.

60-120 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;

ligules 0.5-3 mm;

blades to 50 cm long, 0.2-2(8) mm wide, involute (rarely flat), glabrous, pubescent behind the ligules.

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 1-3 racemosely arranged branches;

branches 5.6-23.3 cm, erect (rarely divergent), terminating in a spikelet;

branch axes 0.5-1.2 mm wide, glabrous, margins scabrous to pubescent.

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

2.3-3.7 mm long, 1.3-1.9 mm wide, paired, imbricate, appressed to the branch axes, elliptic to narrowly ovate, glabrous, stramineous (rarely partially purple).

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.

usually absent;

upper glumes glabrous, 1-veined, margins entire;

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

upper florets stramineous.

0.9-1.1 mm, white to yellow.

2-2.4 mm, yellow to golden brown.

= 18, 20, 40, 80.

= unknown.