Flora of North America species comparison

30-110 cm, stout, erect;

nodes glabrous.

15-96 cm, erect or prostrate, often rooting at the lower nodes;

nodes glabrous.

glabrous;

ligules 2-3 mm;

blades to 35 cm long, 2-5.4 mm wide, conduplicate (rarely flat).

glabrous;

ligules 1-3.2 mm;

blades to 56 cm long, 2.2-15 mm wide, flat.

terminal, with 2-7 racemosely arranged branches;

branches 1.6-7.1 cm, usually divergent, rarely merely ascending;

branch axes 0.6-1.1 mm wide, glabrous, terminating in a spikelet.

terminal, with 1-10(28) racemosely arranged branches;

branches 1.2-8.2 cm, diverging;

branch axes 0.7-2.3 mm wide, glabrous, broadly winged, wings about as wide as the central portion, margins scabrous, terminating in a spikelet.

2.5-3 mm long, 1.5-2.2 mm wide, paired, appressed to the branch axes, elliptic-ovate, light to dark brown.

2-2.2 mm long, 1.3-1.8 mm wide, paired, appressed to the branch axes, glabrous, broadly elliptic, obovate, or orbicular, light to dark brown.

absent;

upper glumes usually with short, appressed pubescence, rarely glabrous, 5-veined, margins entire;

lower lemmas with short, appressed pubescence or glabrous, 3-veined, margins entire;

upper florets dark glossy brown.

absent;

upper glumes glabrous, 5-veined, margins entire;

lower lemmas glabrous, 3-5-veined, margins entire;

upper florets dark glossy brown.

1.4-1.6 mm, brown.

1.4-1.6 mm, white.

= 20, 40, 60.

= 40.