Flora of North America species comparison

20-100 cm.

(8.5) 15-60 cm, often decumbent at the base and rooting at the nodes.

smooth to scabridulous;

ligules 1-3(4) mm, rounded to broadly acute, erose;

blades 13-17 cm long, 5-7 mm wide, scabrous.

smooth;

ligules 2-8 mm;

blades 2-16 cm long, 2-11 mm wide, scabrous.

8-15 cm, lobed or interrupted, usually purplish;

pedicels absent or vestigial;

stipes 0.3-0.5 mm.

3-15 cm long, 0.5-5 cm wide, narrowly ovoid, oblong, or cylindrical, dense, usually lobed, pale green or yellowish;

pedicels absent or to 0.5 mm;

stipes 0.2-1.3 mm.

1.5-3 mm, smooth to echinate, margins ciliate, apices acute to truncate, unlobed or lobed, lobes to 0.1 mm, awned, awns (3)4-6 mm, flexuous;

lemmas 1-1.3 mm, awned, awns 2-3.5 mm, flexuous;

paleas from shorter than to subequal to the lemmas;

anthers 0.3-0.5 mm.

1.8-2.4 mm, equal to subequal, scabridulous to echinate, not tapering to the apices, apices acute to rounded, lobed, lobes 0.1-0.2 mm, awned from the sinuses, awns 0.6-3 mm, those of the lower and upper glumes subequal to equal, flexuous;

lemmas 0.9-1.2 mm, smooth, unawned or awned, awns to 2 mm, flexuous;

paleas 0.7-1.2 mm, from 3/4 as long as to equaling the lemmas;

anthers 0.3-0.6 mm.

= unknown.

= 42.