Flora of North America species comparison

30-130 cm, decumbent;

nodes glabrous or pubescent.

10-50 cm, erect.

glabrous or pubescent;

ligules 1-3.2 mm;

blades to 31 cm long, 4-18 mm wide, flat, glabrous, with a few hairs behind the ligules.

glabrous or sparsely pubescent;

ligules 0.5-2 mm;

blades to 20 cm long, 1.5-3.8 mm wide, flat, pubescent.

terminal, with 2-7 racemosely arranged branches;

branches 2.2-7.9 cm, divergent to spreading, terminating in a spikelet;

branch axes 1.1-2.3 mm wide, narrowly winged, glabrous, margins scabrous.

terminal, usually composed of a digitate pair of branches, 1-5 additional branches sometimes present below;

branches 1.8-7.1 cm, diverging to erect;

branch axes 0.8-1.3 mm wide, winged, terminating in a spikelet.

2.8-3.6 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide, paired, imbricate, appressed to divergent from the branch axes, elliptic to obovate, pubescent or glabrous, light brown to stramineous.

3-3.6 mm long, 1.3-1.8 mm wide, solitary (rarely paired), appressed to the branch axes, elliptic, glabrous, apices acute to acuminate.

absent;

upper glumes and lower lemmas glabrous or sparsely pubescent, hairs shorter than 0.1 mm, 3-veined, margins entire;

lower lemmas lacking ribs over the veins;

upper florets stramineous.

absent;

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

upper florets stramineous to golden brown.

1.8-2 mm, golden brown or white.

= 60, ca. 64.

= 12, 24, 36.