Flora of North America species comparison

to 100 cm, erect or decumbent at the base.

20-100 cm.

smooth, glabrous;

ligules 4-8 mm, scabridulous, lacerate;

blades 10-30 cm long, 4-15 mm wide.

smooth to scabridulous;

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

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

10-30 cm, erect or nodding, interrupted, dense;

pedicels not developed;

stipes 1.5-2.5 mm.

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

pedicels absent or vestigial;

stipes 0.3-0.5 mm.

3-5 mm, hispidulous, tapering from about midlength to the acute apices, apices unlobed, awned, awns 1-3 mm;

lemmas about 1.5 mm, awned, awns 1-2 mm, arising from above midlength;

paleas 1/2 - 2/3 as long as the lemmas;

anthers 0.5-0.7 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.

= 28, 56.

= unknown.