Flora of North America species comparison

(50)100-180 cm, erect;

nodes pubescent.

to 200 cm, erect;

nodes glabrous.

pubescent, margins extending into auricles;

ligules 1-6.3 mm;

blades 15-62 cm long, 4.9-6.1 mm wide, involute to flat, glabrous.

glabrous;

ligules 2-3 mm;

blades to 57 cm long, 2-3 cm wide, flat, glabrous below, appressed pubescent above.

terminal, with 15-44 racemosely arranged branches;

branches 1.2-8.5 cm, straight, erect to ascending, lower branches longer than those above;

branch axes 0.5-0.6 mm wide, narrowly winged, glabrous, margins scabrous, pubescent, terminating in a spikelet.

terminal, with 60-100 racemosely arranged branches;

branches 1-13 cm, divergent to spreading, often arcuate;

branch axes 0.9-1.2 mm wide, winged, margins scabrous, long pubescent.

2-2.5(3) mm long, 0.9-1.3 mm wide, paired, divergent to spreading from the branch axes, elliptic, brown to stramineous, often purple-tinged.

2-2.4 mm long, 0.9-1.2 mm wide, paired, divergent to spreading from the branch axes, elliptic to ovate, glabrous or pubescent, stramineous, sometimes partially purple.

usually absent, if present, to 0.9 mm, triangular;

upper glumes shortly pubescent, 3-veined, purple-spotted, margins entire;

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

upper florets 2.2-2.5 mm, white.

absent;

upper glumes smooth, 3-veined, margins entire, sparsely short-pubescent, at least distally;

lower lemmas smooth, lacking ribs over the veins, 3-veined, margins entire, glabrous or shortly pubescent;

upper florets stramineous to white.

1.5-1.7 mm, golden brown.

= 20, 30, 40.

= 20, 40.