General: Annual grass from fibrous roots; stems smooth, mostly 80-120 cm tall.
Leaves: Sheaths open, smooth; blades mostly (5) 10-15 mm wide; ear-shaped lobes at leaf-bases well-developed; ligules 0.5-1 mm long.
Flowers: Inflorescence a stout spike; spikelets 3 to a node, unstalked, well-developed and fertile; glumes narrow, usually awned; lemmas awned, the awns 10-15 mm long, sometimes unawned but more or less prominently 3-lobed at the tips.
If more than one illustration is
available for a species (e.g., separate illustrations were provided for two
subspecies) then links to the separate images will be provided below.
Note that individual subspecies or varietal illustrations are not always available.
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)
