Flora of North America species comparison

4-55 cm, erect;

nodes pubescent.

15-80 cm, erect;

nodes glabrous.

glabrous or pubescent;

ligules 1-4 mm;

blades 10-40 cm long, 8-22 mm wide, flat, glabrous or sparsely pubescent.

glabrous, pubescent distally;

ligules 0.5-0.8 mm;

blades 7-23 cm long, 1.5-8 mm wide, flat.

terminal, with (7)20-70 racemosely arranged branches;

branches 1.2-9.5 cm, diverging to spreading, occasionally arcuate, disarticulating at maturity;

branch axes 0.7-1.5 mm wide, broadly winged, glabrous, margins scabrous, extending beyond the distal spikelet.

terminal, usually composed of a pair of branches, a third branch sometimes present below the terminal pair;

branches 2.5-12.7 cm, diverging to spreading, often arcuate, persistent;

branch axes 0.2-0.8 mm wide, glabrous, margins scabrous, terminating in a reduced spikelet.

1.1-1.9 mm long, 0.5-0.8 mm wide, solitary, appressed to the branch axes, elliptic, pubescent, white.

1.3-1.9 mm long, 0.8-1.1 mm wide, solitary, appressed to the branch axes, ovate, stramineous.

absent;

upper glumes and lower lemmas veinless;

upper florets white.

absent;

upper glumes pilose on the margins, veinless or 2-3-veined;

lower lemmas glabrous, veinless or 2-3-veined;

upper florets whitish to golden yellow.

0.8-0.9 mm, translucent, white.

0.9-1.1 mm, white to yellow.

= 20.

= 18, 20, 40, 80.