Flora of North America species comparison

(50)100-180 cm, erect;

nodes pubescent.

40-90 cm, erect;

nodes purple.

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 0.1-0.3 mm;

blades 4-13 cm long, 10-22 mm wide, flat, glabrous.

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 40-75 racemosely arranged branches;

branches 1-2.5 cm, divergent to erect;

branch axes 1-1.5 mm wide, terminating in a pedicellate spikelet.

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.

2.5-2.9 mm long, 0.8-1.2 mm wide, paired, appressed to or divergent from the branch axes, linear-elliptic, pubescent, stramineous or purplish.

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 and lower lemmas rugose, shortly ciliate;

lower lemmas lacking ribs over the veins;

upper florets 1.3-1.6 mm, stramineous, oblong elliptic, pale, shiny.

white.

= 20, 30, 40.

= unknown.