Flora of North America species comparison

5-65 cm, erect;

nodes glabrous.

30-97 cm, erect;

nodes glabrous.

glabrous, sparsely long pubescent distally;

ligules 1-2 mm;

blades to 14 cm long, 1.8-11.5 mm wide, flat or conduplicate, glabrous or pubescent, apices involute.

glabrous or pubescent;

ligules 2.2-4.7 mm;

blades to 38 cm long, 2.3-6.2 mm wide, flat, glabrous or pubescent.

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

branches 1.4-7 cm, diverging, often arcuate;

branch axes 1.2-2.2 mm wide, winged, glabrous, margins scabrous, terminating in a spikelet.

terminal, with 3-11 racemosely arranged branches;

branches 1.5-4 cm, divergent, occasionally arcuate, terminating in a spikelet;

branch axes 1.5-2 mm wide, broadly winged, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, margins scabrous, usually slightly conduplicate, occasionally purple.

2.4-3.2 mm long, 1.1-1.6 mm wide, solitary (rarely paired), appressed to the branch axes, broadly elliptic, stramineous, sometimes partially purple.

2.2-2.6 mm long, 1.2-1.5 mm wide, paired, imbricate, appressed to divergent from the branch axes, elliptic to obovate, stramineous (rarely purple-spotted), margins scabrous apically.

absent or, if present, to 1 mm and triangular;

upper glumes sparsely and shortly pubescent on the back, 3-veined;

lower lemmas glabrous, 3-veined;

upper florets stramineous.

absent;

upper glumes and lower lemmas glabrous, 5-veined, margins entire;

lower lemmas lacking ribs over the veins;

upper florets white to pale.

1.9-2.1 mm, yellow.

2-2.2 mm, brown.

= 20, 30, 40, 48, 60, 61.

= 40, 60.