General: Perennial grass from conspicuous rhizomes; stems 40-100 cm tall, the nodes exposed.
Leaves: Sheaths smooth to hairy; blades 1-3 mm wide, usually in-rolled, with rough upper surfaces, ear-shaped lobes usually present at the leaf-bases, up to 0.8 mm long; ligules up to 0.2-0.5 mm long, fringed with hairs.
Flowers: Inflorescence a spike 4-14 cm long, 0.3-0.8 cm wide, erect, with 1 spikelet per node; spikelets 10-18 mm long, 1.5-2 times longer than the middle internodes, with 3 to 7 florets; glumes 0.5-0.8 times the length of the lemmas, smooth to rough, weakly keeled, sharply pointed or shortly awned at the tips; lemmas 7.5-9.5 mm long, smooth or densely hairy, the awns 4-12 mm long, strongly curved outward; anthers 3-5 mm long.
Notes: This taxon is a hybrid between Pseudoroegneria spicata and Elymus lanceolatus (M. Barkworth, pers. comm.)
Dry alkaline flats, sand dunes, gravelly sites and open forests in the steppe and montane zones; common in NE, SC and SE BC; E to AB and S to NE, CO, UT, ID and WA.
The table below shows the species-specific information calculated from original data (BEC database) provided by the BC Ministry of Forests and Range. (Updated August, 2013)
