Flora of North America species comparison

50-220 cm, erect;

nodes glabrous or pubescent.

23-125 cm, erect;

nodes glabrous or pubescent.

glabrous or pubescent;

ligules 1-4(7.7) mm;

blades 12-60 cm long, 2-12 mm wide, flat, mostly glabrous, a few long hairs near the base of the adaxial surface.

glabrous or pubescent;

ligules 0.6-1.9 mm;

blades to 38 cm long, 4-18 mm wide, flat, glabrous or pubescent, dark green.

terminal, with (4)10-30 racemosely arranged branches;

branches 1.2-11.5 cm, divergent;

branch axes 0.5-1.1 mm wide, winged, glabrous, margins scabrous, terminating in a spikelet.

terminal, with 1-3(4) racemosely arranged branches;

branches 2.3-13.4 cm, erect to divergent, terminating in a spikelet;

branch axes 0.2-1 mm wide, glabrous, margins scabrous.

1.8-2.8 mm long, 1.1-1.5 mm wide, paired, appressed to the branch axes, elliptic to slightly obovate, stramineous (rarely purple).

2.1-3.3 mm long, 1.3-1.6 mm wide, paired, imbricate, appressed to the branch axes, elliptic to obovate, stramineous to brown.

1.2-1.7 mm, white.

1.3-1.5 mm, light to dark brown.

glumes absent;

upper glumes and lower lemmas 3-veined, margins pilose;

upper florets stramineous.

glumes 0.4-1.2(1.8) mm, stramineous to brown;

upper glumes with papillose-based short pubescence, 3- or 5-veined, margins entire, lower lemmas with papillose-based short pubescence, lacking ribs over the veins, 3-veined, margins entire;

upper florets light stramineous.

= 40.

= 40, 60.