Flora of North America species comparison

10-65 cm, erect to decumbent.

10-45 cm, wiry, erect to decumbent.

overlapping, margins ciliate, apices with tufts of hairs, hairs to 2 mm;

ligules 0.1-0.4 mm;

blades usually conspicuously distichous, 4-16 cm long, 2-5 mm wide, flat to loosely involute, glabrous abaxially, scabridulous adaxially, margins scabridulous.

inflated, mostly glabrous but the apices with small tufts of hairs, hairs to 3 mm;

ligules 0.1-0.3 mm;

blades 1-12 cm long, 0.6-2 mm wide, flat to loosely involute, abaxial surface glabrous, adaxial surface scabridulous, bases of both surfaces sometimes with papillose-based hairs, margins smooth or scabridulous.

3-10 cm long, 0.4-1.6 cm wide, contracted, spikelike, dense;

primary branches 0.5-2 cm, appressed, spikelet-bearing to the base;

pedicels 0.2-1.4 mm, appressed.

terminal and axillary, 2-5 cm long, 0.2-0.5 cm wide, contracted, cylindrical, included in the uppermost sheath;

lower nodes with 1-2(3) branches;

primary branches 0.4-1.8 cm, appressed, spikelet-bearing to the base;

secondary branches appressed;

pedicels 0.1-2.5 mm, appressed, scabridulous.

(1.8)2-3.2 mm, yellowish-white to purplish-tinged, sometimes grayish.

1.6-3 mm, yellowish to cream-colored, sometimes purple-tinged.

subequal, ovate-oblong, membranous;

lower glumes 1.5-2.4 mm;

upper glumes 1.8-3(3.2) mm;

lemmas 2.1-3 mm, ovate to lanceolate, membranous, glabrous, acute;

paleas 2.1-3 mm, ovate, membranous;

anthers 3, 1-1.7 mm, yellowish.

subequal, shorter than the florets, lanceolate to ovate, membranous to chartaceous, glabrous;

lower glumes 1.5-2.4 mm, midveins often greenish;

upper glumes 1.7-2.7 mm;

lemmas 1.6-2.9 mm, ovate, chartaceous, glabrous, acute;

paleas 1.6-3 mm, ovate, chartaceous, glabrous;

anthers 3, 1.1-1.6 mm, purplish.

not known.

1.2-1.8 mm, obovoid, laterally flattened, light brownish or orangish-brown, translucent, finely striate.

= 20, 30.

= 36.