Flora of North America species comparison

10-79 cm, erect;

nodes glabrous.

80-210 cm, erect;

nodes glabrous or pubescent.

glabrous, sparsely long pubescent distally;

ligules 1-2 mm;

blades 10-19 cm long, 1.4-8 mm wide, flat or conduplicate, glabrous or pubescent, apices involute.

glabrous or pubescent;

ligules 1.2-3.3 mm;

blades to 52 cm long, 3-18 mm wide, flat, glabrous or pubescent, usually densely pubescent behind the ligules.

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

branches 1.1-7.9 cm, diverging to erect;

branch axes 0.4-1.4 mm wide, winged, glabrous, margins scabrous, terminating in a spikelet.

terminal, with 1-6 racemosely arranged branches;

branches 3-17.9 cm, divergent to erect, terminating in a spikelet;

branch axes 0.3-1.8 mm wide, glabrous, the margins scabrous.

3-4.5 mm long, 1.1-2 mm wide, solitary, appressed to the branch axes, elliptic-lanceolate, glabrous, light stramineous, apices acute to acuminate.

2.9-4.1 mm long, 1.9-3.1 mm wide, paired, imbricate, appressed to the branch axes, elliptic to suborbicular to orbicular, glabrous, stramineous.

absent (rarely present);

upper glumes and lower lemmas glabrous, 3-veined;

upper florets white.

absent;

upper glumes glabrous, 5-veined, margins entire;

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

upper florets golden brown.

2.8-3.1 mm, yellow.

2.8 mm, amber.

= 20, 40, 60.

= 120, 140, ca. 160-170.