Tridens strictus
longspike tridens
50-170 cm, stiffly erect.
rounded, glabrous except for a few hairs on either side of the collar;
ligules about 0.5 mm, membranous, ciliate;
blades 2-8 mm wide, flat or loosely infolded, glabrous, tapering to the apices.
10-30(36) cm long, 1-2 cm wide;
branches to 6 cm, erect or appressed;
pedicels 1-1.5 mm, glabrous.
4-7 mm, with 5-11 florets.
4-7 mm, always conspicuously exceeding and often twice as long as the adjacent lemmas, usually equaling or exceeding the distal florets, glabrous, 1-veined, tapering to acuminate apices;
calluses pilose;
lemmas (2)3-3.5 mm, veins pilose to well above midlength, lateral veins often excurrent;
paleas 2-3 mm, bases not bowed-out;
anthers 1-1.5 mm.
1-1.5 mm.
= 40.
Tridens strictus
Tridens strictus grows in open woods, old fields, right of ways, and coastal grasslands. It is endemic to the United States.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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