Flora of North America species comparison

30-110 cm, stout, erect;

nodes glabrous.

30-97 cm, erect;

nodes glabrous.

glabrous;

ligules 2-3 mm;

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

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, 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 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.

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

2.2-2.6 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;

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

lower lemmas lacking ribs over the veins;

upper florets white to pale.

1.4-1.6 mm, brown.

2-2.2 mm, brown.

= 20, 40, 60.

= 40, 60.