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with simple or branched caudices, sometimes stoloniferous). Stems erect to ascending, decumbent, or prostrate, simple or branched, glabrous or hairy, sometimes

architecture","body architecture or pubescence or relief","body architecture or shape","body relief","branch arrangement or course or shape","branch structure

perennial, rarely annual or biennial, rosetted to densely matted, 0.1–7 (–10) dm, sparsely to densely hairy hairs straight, crisped, and/or cottony, sometimes

without axillary pulvini and usually appressed to ascending, or with axillary pulvini and ascending to strongly divergent or divaricate. Spikelets with 1 floret;

reddish purple), sparsely to densely strigose (hairs short to long), eglandular to densely stipitate-glandular (usually more densely so distally). Receptacles

creeping, ascending, erect, arching, or pendent, green or reddish, densely to loosely terete-foliate, rarely subcomplanate-foliate, irregularly or regularly

tissue or fringes of hair (ligules); blades frequently absent from some basal leaves, rarely from cauline leaves, when present divergent or ascending, flat

2–6 series, appressed to loosely spreading, 1-nerved, oblanceolate to oblong or linear, equal or unequal, usually herbaceous and yellow-green or with distinct

3 (–8), semileaflike or more often scalelike. Peduncles absent or erect, ascending, spreading, horizontal, cernuous, recurved, or deflexed, filiform to

height or length or size","glume length or size","glume quantity","glume size","glume variability","hair architecture or shape","hair quantity","hair shape"

(discoid; unisexual in Baccharis) or heterogamous (disciform or radiate), usually in corymbiform, paniculiform, racemiform, or spiciform arrays, sometimes borne

"fruit architecture","fruit dehiscence","hair architecture","hair presence","hair quantity","inflorescence position or structure subtype","leaf arrangement"

individually subtend some or all of the florets) or epaleate (lacking paleae); epaleate receptacles sometimes bristly or hairy or bearing subulate enations

alternate; ± petiolate (basal) or sessile (usually appressed to ascending); blades usually 1-nerved, sometimes 3-nerved or 5-nerved, mostly linear to ovatelanceolate

pedicels spreading to ascending or erect. Flowers: calyx-tube 0.2–1 mm (1.5–2 mm in P. retrorsus), lobes: margins entire or erose, ± scarious or herbaceous

superficial or immersed; peristome double, rarely single or absent; exostome teeth 0, 8, or 16, papillose or striate; endostome segments 0, 8, or 16. Calyptra

2-pinnate, ternate, or finely dissected; ultimate divisions lobed or unlobed, margins entire or few-toothed. Inflorescences terminal and/or axillary, on current-years

annual or perennial; usually synoecious, sometimes monoecious, gynodioecious, dioecious, and/or asexual; with or without rhizomes or stolons, densely to loosely

rarely proximally cleft, pinnatifid, or 2-pinnatifid. Inflorescences terminal, racemes or panicles, rarely racemiform or spikelike; bracts present. Pedicels

tipped with turions, or rarely buds (gemmae) in leaf-axils; with woody base or caudex, or with taproots. Stems erect to ascending or decumbent, simple to

(thin or thick walled), 6–18-ribbed, faces silky (hairs antrorsely ascending to appressed); pappi persistent, of 30–90+ usually whitish to brown or reddish-brown

Herbs or subshrubs, rarely shrubs, annual or perennial, sometimes biennial; hemiparasitic, caudex woody or fleshy, taprooted to fibrous-rooted or rhizomatous

glandular-pubescent, puberulent, or retrorsely hairy, cymes 1 or 2 per node; peduncles and pedicels spreading to ascending or erect, rarely appressed. Flowers: calyx lobes:

inflorescence pendent, rarely ascending, branches spreading, axis 1–2.5 cm, 1+ mm diam., sparsely to densely short-hairy, sometimes glandular, or long-hairy eglandular;

rooting and producing shoots at every 2d node, glabrate to densely spreading-hairy or appressed-ascending hairy. Leaves deciduous, basal, alternate, ternate;

presence","glume height or length or size","glume length or size","glume quantity","hair quantity","hair shape","hilum height or length or size","inflorescence

sometimes fibrous-rooted or taprooted. Aerial stems erect to decumbent, prostrate, or creeping, or absent. Leaves basal or cauline, palmately compound

485. Shrubs. Stems erect, ascending, arching, or spreading, decussately branched. Bark tight or exfoliating in grayish, brown, or reddish-brown sheets. Branches

mostly ascending or spreading, 1 or both surfaces sparsely to densely pubescent with appressed or erect hairs, hairs to 5 mm, bases rounded or slightly

Herbs or shrubs [trees, rarely lianas], annual or perennial, with taproot or thickened or tuberous rootstock. Stems erect, ascending, decumbent, or prostrate

clumps); rhizomatous. Stems ascending to erect, simple or branched, usually moderately to densely appressed silky-sericeous (hairs often anastomosing), rarely

height or length or size","glume length or size","glume quantity","glume size","glume variability","hair architecture or shape","hair quantity","hair shape"

arrangement or course or shape","caryopse presence","cilium height or length or size","cross-section position","endosperm texture","epiderme quantity","hair shape"

persistent or deciduous, erect, spreading, or reflexed, rarely ascending, lanceolate or ovatelanceolate, 5–30 (–40) × 1.5–6 mm, margins entire or pinnatifid

white, or yellow (tubes glabrous or sparsely hairy, laminae spreading, reflexed, or drooping, linear to elliptic or obovate, abaxial faces glabrous or moderately

monomorphic or dimorphic, entire, emarginate, or lobed to laciniate apically; stamens 3, 6, or 9, or variously 3–9; filaments distinct or connate into

round or angular ribs separated by usually broad sulci, or ribs not well defined or not evident, obovoid, ellipsoid, or nearly globose, smooth or tuberculate

stems, throughout stem length or confined to base of stem. Leaves monomorphic, tightly appressed and spirally arranged, or upperside and underside leaves

subshrubs or shrubs, annual or perennial, with taproot or thickened rootstock. Stems usually prostrate, sometimes erect, ascending, reclining, or decumbent

"glume height or length or size","glume length or size","glume quantity","glume variability","hair architecture or shape","hair quantity","hair shape","hilum

leucanthemifolia). Involucres campanulate or turbinate. Phyllaries in 3–10 series, appressed, spreading, or reflexed, indurate bases usually glabrous,

stiff to flexible, bases appressed or abruptly spreading, usually without axillary pulvini. Spikelets divergent or appressed, with or without axillary pulvini

architecture or pubescence or relief","disc-floret reproduction","face coloration","hair architecture","hair fragility","hair pubescence or texture","hair shape"

shape","fruit some measurement","hair architecture","hair architecture or function or pubescence","hair course","hair shape","hypanthium atypical length"

distal cells); taprooted or fibrous-rooted. Stems erect, ascending, procumbent or decumbent, simple or branched, glabrous or woolly, arachnoid (in C. mariana)

elongate, dense, erect or somewhat curved spike. Flowers: buds erect, weakly quadrangular, with free tips terminal or subterminal, erect or spreading; floral-tube

"fruit shape","fruit some measurement","hair architecture","hair architecture or function or pubescence","hair course","hypanthium atypical length","hypanthium

Association Stems spreading or ascending to erect, forming dense mats, puberulent, glandular-hairy, or glabrous. Leaves imbricate, somewhat appressed to leaf above

"glume height or length or size","glume length or size","glume quantity","glume variability","hair architecture or shape","hair quantity","hair shape","hilum

Annuals or perennials, (5–) 20–300 (–500) cm. Stems erect or ascending to decumbent or procumbent, usually branched distally. Leaves basal and/or cauline;

branches stiff, spreading-ascending, without axillary leaf tufts), glabrous or sparsely strigose (hairs straight, ascending-appressed), sometimes minutely

cell presence","glume height or length or size","glume length or size","hair quantity","hair shape","hilum height or length or size","inflorescence arrangement"

"glume height or length or size","glume length or size","glume quantity","glume variability","hair architecture or shape","hair quantity","hair shape","hilum

inflorescence pendent or ascending, branches spreading, axis 1–3 cm, 1+ mm diam., densely glandular, (sticky); bracts appressed, (glaucous), scalelike

176, 177. Annuals, biennials, or perennials, 20–300 cm, glabrous or tomentose. Stems erect, ascending, or spreading, simple or branched. Leaves basal and

Stem-leaves appressed, erect, spreading, patent, or falcate-secund, loosely or tightly imbricate, rarely somewhat spaced, lanceolate, ovate, or triangular

height or length or size","glume length or size","glume quantity","glume size","glume variability","hair architecture or shape","hair quantity","hair shape"

Association Subshrubs small; branches prostrate, spreading, or ascending, mat-forming. Leaves densely crowded on stems; petiole very short, leaving small

apex obtuse or acute to acuminate or spinose. Inflorescences terminal or sometimes axillary, frequently much-branched or congested cymes, or flowers solitary;

"fruit shape","fruit some measurement","hair architecture","hair architecture or function or pubescence","hair course","hypanthium atypical length","hypanthium

usually stiff, spreading, sometimes antrorsely ascending or appressed; var. viscidulus), usually densely minutely glandular at least distally, sometimes eglandular

compressed, nervation not evident, faces densely sericeous to villous (some hairs ascending-spreading, others appressed and tortuous); pappi persistent, of

pubescence","hair architecture","hair arrangement or shape","hair pubescence","inflorescence architecture or arrangement","inflorescence position or structure

distal branches stiff, spreading-ascending), hispid (hairs spreading-deflexed, 0.1–0.4 mm), mostly eglandular. Leaves cauline; (ascending) blades narrowly oblong-lanceolate

distinct or confluent), (1.5–) 2–20 (–32) cm; petiole: long hairs soft to stiff, sometimes absent, spreading to ± appressed, glands usually absent or sparse;

pubescence or texture","basal leaf arrangement","flower architecture","hair atypical quantity","hair coloration","hair position or shape","hair pubescence

shape","bract height or length or size","flower architecture or arrangement or growth form","flower orientation","hair architecture","hair presence","inflorescence

7–10+ series, linear to broadly ovate, bases appressed, margins entire, apices ascending to spreading or reflexed, acute, spine-tipped. Receptacles flat

architecture","fruit course","fruit dehiscence","fruit shape","hair height or length or size","hair position relational","indusium architecture","indusium prominence"

inflorescence pendent, branches spreading or ascending, axis 1–2 cm, 1+ mm diam., sparsely short-hairy, viscid glandular-hairy; bracts appressed, scalelike, linear-lanceolate

minutely ciliolate; blades 0.8-2.5 mm wide, flat or folded, thin, soft, appressed or abruptly ascending to spreading, straight, apices narrowly prow-shaped. Panicles

abruptly smaller on distal portion of stem; basal petioles spreading, cauline petioles ascending; blades of basal leaves more rounded and with fewer, wider

margin or curved toward apex. Flowers erect or ascending; peduncle 1.5- calyx-tube cylindric, externally tan or purplish, hirsute (often densely), internally

rounded, or cordate, margins entire. Inflorescences terminal or terminal and axillary, spikelike, uninterrupted or interrupted. Flowers homostylous or heterostylous

shape","fruit some measurement","hair architecture","hair architecture or function or pubescence","hair course","hair shape","hypanthium atypical length"

Inflorescences usually with 3-8 flowers per 5 cm, ± dense, cylindric; pedicel appressed-ascending, usually less than 2 cm; bracts markedly smaller and

erect, patent, or rigidly spreading, imbricate-appressed, ovate, ovate-triangular, or lanceolate, moderately to strongly concave, not or slightly plicate;

anastomosing-cohering); cauline 20–60, sometimes crowded, spreading to ascending, linear or lanceolate to ovate, usually reduced distally, apices acute, faces silvery-sericeous;

"filament pubescence","hair architecture","hair arrangement or shape","inflorescence architecture or arrangement","inflorescence position or structure subtype"

"glume height or length or size","glume length or size","glume quantity","glume variability","hair architecture or shape","hair quantity","hair shape","hilum

arrangement","blade arrangement or course or shape","caryopse architecture or shape","caryopse presence","cilium height or length or size","cross-section position"

pubescence","hair architecture","hair arrangement or shape","hair pubescence","inflorescence architecture or arrangement","inflorescence position or structure

shape","fruit some measurement","hair architecture","hair architecture or function or pubescence","hair course","hair shape","hypanthium atypical length"

Plants matted or tufted, green to grayish. Stems decumbent to erect, (1–) 2–6 (–7.5) dm, hairs ascending to appressed, sometimes spreading. Basal leaves

antrorse, appressed, or ± ascending), or hirsute-pilose (hairs erect, straight), or ± villous (hairs wavy or wavy-crinkled), or hairs tightly coiled or 1/2 coiled

arrangement or course or shape","caryopse presence","cilium height or length or size","cross-section position","endosperm texture","epiderme quantity","hair shape"

"glume height or length or size","glume length or size","glume quantity","glume variability","hair architecture or shape","hair quantity","hair shape","hilum

branches per node; branches (1) 2-9 cm, spreading early or late, terete or angled, smooth or sparsely to moderately densely scabrous, with 4-30 (50) spikelets

medium-sized to large, in dense to loose mats, green, dark green, yellowish, or brownish. Stems creeping, densely to moderately densely terete-foliate to homomallous

"glume height or length or size","glume quantity","glume variability","hair architecture or shape","hair quantity","hair shape","hilum coloration or relief"

essentially simple. Stems ascending to decumbent or prostrate, loosely strigose to hirtellous (hairs appressed-ascending to spreading, even-width, basal-cells

architecture","fusoid cell presence","glume quantity","hair ligule texture","hair shape","internode height or length or size","internode presence","layer presence"

eremica); stipules present or absent; leaflets loosely or, sometimes, tightly overlapping, individually distinguishable or not, lobed to base, sometimes

268, 293. Herbs or shrubs, annual or perennial, monoecious or dioecious, often with bladderlike hairs that collapse to form silvery or scurfy (mealy) vesture

arrangement or course or shape","hilum coloration or relief","inflorescence position or structure subtype","internode architecture","lemma architecture or shape"

"glume height or length or size","glume length or size","glume quantity","glume variability","hair architecture or shape","hair quantity","hair shape","hilum

architecture or arrangement","cyme architecture or arrangement or growth form","cyme position","cyme presence","filament fusion","flower architecture or arrangement"

height or length or size","glume length or size","glume quantity","glume size","glume variability","hair architecture or shape","hair quantity","hair shape"

"glume height or length or size","glume length or size","glume quantity","glume variability","hair architecture or shape","hair quantity","hair shape","hilum

pubescent with appressed, curled hairs often in 2 bands or rarely glabrate; distally densely puberulent with appressed, curled hairs. Leaves ascending at 30–45°

"fruit shape","fruit some measurement","hair architecture","hair architecture or function or pubescence","hair course","hypanthium atypical length","hypanthium

large, in dense or loose tufts, light to deep green, sometimes yellowish, brownish, or rarely brownish red with age. Stems creeping, ascending, or arching

"and\/or height or length or size","and\/or length or size","and\/or pubescence","and\/or shape","and\/or; and\/or vestiture coloration","and\/or; and\/or

in dense mats. Stems creeping, branches ascending to erect. Leaves strongly crisped and inrolled, rarely erect-appressed when dry, erect-spreading to squarrose-recurved

"glume height or length or size","glume length or size","glume quantity","glume size","glume variability","hair architecture or shape","hair shape","hilum

Association Shrubs or trees, 1.5-11 (-14) m; trunks slender, to 20 (-30) cm diam.; bark shallowly furrowed in larger trees. Branches spreading-ascending, slender;

sericeous, hairs appressed, loosely appressed, ascending, or chaotic, ± coarse, straight or wavy-curved hairs, 0.5–1.5 mm, infrequently more densely lanate

pubescence or relief","body architecture or shape","body relief","branch arrangement or course or shape","branch structure in adjective form","bristle pappus duration"

"glume height or length or size","glume length or size","glume quantity","glume variability","hair architecture or shape","hair quantity","hair shape","hilum

acute; lobes spreading or ascending-spreading, linear, apex acute. Inflorescences (1.5–) 4–8 (–12) × 1.5–5.5 cm; bracts pale green to yellow-green or reddish

architecture or shape","cauline leaf arrangement","cauline leaf arrangement or course or shape","cauline leaf orientation","cauline leaf prominence or shape"

sparsely to densely strigose or strigillose, sometimes glabrous (var. glabrum), adaxial usually strigose or scabrous, sometimes glabrate or glabrous (var

cm; taprooted, caudices simple or branched, branches sometimes rhizomelike. Stems ascending to erect, sparsely to densely hispido-pilose to glabrate, minutely

"disc-floret reproduction","face coloration","hair architecture","hair fragility","hair pubescence or texture","hair shape","involucre length","involucre width"

"fruit shape","fruit some measurement","hair architecture","hair architecture or function or pubescence","hair course","hypanthium atypical length","hypanthium

linear to lanceolate, 1–4 mm; petiole 0.2–1.2 cm, hairs absent or sparse to dense, appressed or ascending, 0.5–2 mm; leaflets 15–60 per side, loosely to tightly

Herbs annual or short-lived per­ennial, villous, usually densely so proximally, less dense to glabrate distally, sometimes hairs somewhat appressed and shorter

bicolored, dense, broadly lanceolate to linear, to 6 × 2 mm. Leaves densely tufted, green over winter, persistent after withering; sterile leaves spreading, 3–17

"fruit shape","fruit some measurement","hair architecture","hair architecture or function or pubescence","hair course","hypanthium atypical length","hypanthium

"glume height or length or size","glume length or size","glume quantity","glume variability","hair architecture or shape","hair quantity","hair shape","hilum

(7–) 10–20 (–23) cm; sheathing base densely strigose abaxially; stipules absent; petiole 4–8 cm, hairs abundant, ascending, ± 1 (–3) mm; leaflets 20–35 per

arrangement","flower architecture","hair atypical quantity","hair coloration","hair position or shape","hair pubescence or texture","leaf axis coloration"

moderately loose tufts, deep green to brownish or olive green. Stems creeping to ascending, moderately to very densely terete-foliate, irregularly pinnate, branches

Treatment appears in FNA Volume 2. Plants terrestrial, epiphytic, or on rock. Stems ascending to erect, bearing wiry stolons and sometimes underground tubers

yellow to yellowish or orange to bright or dark red, reddish-brown, or dark purple to black, globose to ovoid, ovoid-oblong, ellipsoid, or obovoid, 5–30 (–80)

"glume architecture or pubescence or relief","glume height or length or size","glume pubescence or relief","hair some measurement","intercostal region architecture"

Mentioned on page 157, 158, 184. Shrubs [herbs or subshrubs], dioecious [monoecious]; hairs stellate [unbranched or absent]; latex absent. Leaves persistent

"fruit shape","fruit some measurement","hair architecture","hair architecture or function or pubescence","hair course","hypanthium atypical length","hypanthium

presence","glume height or length or size","glume length or size","glume quantity","hair quantity","hair shape","hilum height or length or size","inflorescence

architecture","body architecture or pubescence or relief","body architecture or shape","body relief","branch arrangement or course or shape","branch structure

forming tufts or mats, green to grayish, obscurely (and minutely) glandular, resinously aromatic, often strongly so. Stems decumbent or ascending to erect,

sometimes stipitate-glandular. Leaves appressed-ascending, ascending, or spreading, narrowly lanceolate to narrowly oblong or ovate, slightly to moderately thickened

"glume height or length or size","glume texture","internode architecture","lodicule architecture or pubescence or shape","lodicule architecture or shape","lodicule

dm, densely silky, hirsute, or ± tomentose with appressed hairs. Leaves simple. Leaf-blade rarely 1-pinnate, narrowly to broadly ovate, unlobed or sometimes

crispate, tomentose, tip obtuse, spreading to recurved, abaxially silky-pubescent. Achenes: bodies pilose, hairs appressed-ascending; beak yellowish-brown to reddish-brown

"glume height or length or size","glume length or size","glume quantity","glume variability","hair architecture or shape","hair quantity","hair shape","hilum

length or size","glume quantity","glume size","glume variability","hair architecture or shape","hair quantity","hair shape","hilum coloration or relief"

erect or ascending, branched or unbranched, sometimes with inconspicuous, short, leafy axillary shoots, hairs ± dense, spreading to appressed, whitish

Mentioned on page 141. Plants annual, glandular-pubescent. Stems ascending to spreading, much-branched, usually filiform, frequently glandular-pubescent

mm wide, flat, densely pubescent on both surfaces. Panicles 5-16 cm, open; branches erect, ascending and appressed to slightly spreading. Spikelets 25-35

"glume architecture or pubescence or relief","glume height or length or size","glume pubescence or relief","hair some measurement","intercostal region architecture"

arrangement","blade arrangement or course or shape","caryopse architecture or shape","caryopse presence","cilium height or length or size","cross-section position"

Stems prostrate to ascending, to 0.2 m, densely hispid with white or yellow bulbous-based hairs and strigose with white antrorse hairs. Leaves elliptic in

architecture or pubescence or relief","adaxial surface pubescence","all position","all quantity","and\/or length or size","and\/or pubescence","and\/or shape"

height or length or size","glume length or size","glume quantity","glume size","glume variability","hair architecture or shape","hair quantity","hair shape"

rosettes, apparently without central axes. Stems ascending (greenish), sparsely pilose (hairs spreading-ascending), strigose proximally, eglandular. Leaves basal

page 252. Plants openly matted, grayish. Stems ascending to erect, 1–3 (–4.5) dm, hairs ascending to appressed. Basal leaves ± planar, 3–8 (–9) × 0.7–1.5 cm;

"fruit architecture","fruit dehiscence","hair architecture","hair presence","hair quantity","inflorescence position or structure subtype","leaf arrangement"

cell presence","glume height or length or size","glume length or size","hair quantity","hair shape","hilum height or length or size","inflorescence arrangement"

dehiscence or orientation","groove quantity","leaf arrangement","leaf growth form","leaf height or length or size","margin architecture or shape","margin

height or length or size","glume length or size","glume quantity","glume size","glume variability","hair architecture or shape","hair quantity","hair shape"

prostrate, spreading, or ascending, 6–12 cm, retrorsely hairy, hairs pointed, sometimes also appressed, white, scalelike. Leaves not leathery, glabrous or sparsely

0.2 mm diam. Leaves conspicuously dimorphic, in 8 ranks, tightly appressed, ascending, green; abaxial ridges present; apex with deciduous, twisted, transparent

soft-hairy, hairs ascending to spreading stipitate-glandular distally. Leaves (dark green) thin, almost membraneous; basal early deciduous, sessile or subpetiolate

"filament pubescence","hair arrangement or shape","hair pubescence","inflorescence architecture or arrangement","inflorescence position or structure subtype"

acute, or acuminate, sometimes rounded or depressed or impressed, glabrous or hairy. Seeds to 60 per locule, reniform-ovoid, reniform-globose, or subglobose

peduncles and pedicels, hairs straight, antrorsely appressed to closely ascending, (rarely Louisiana plants proximally villous, hair spreading), nonseptate. Leaves

1-3.5 mm wide, glabrous or slightly pilose. Inflorescences with (4) 5-10 spikelets; branches stiff, appressed or strongly ascending; lower branches with (1)

Stems ascending to erect, (5–) 8–30 cm, retrorsely hairy, hairs white, scalelike. Leaves ± leathery or not, densely retrorsely hairy, hairs appressed, white

"and\/or height or length or size","and\/or length or size","and\/or pubescence","and\/or shape","and\/or; and\/or vestiture coloration","and\/or; and\/or

"and\/or height or length or size","and\/or length or size","and\/or pubescence","and\/or shape","and\/or; and\/or vestiture coloration","and\/or; and\/or

reddish-brown to grayish green, smooth or scaly; young growth glabrate to densely appressed-pubescent, hairs whitish, yellowish, or silvery, to ca. 0.7 mm. Leaves:

previous year, hairs dense, appressed to spreading, medium length, soft, much-branched, eglandular, white-woolly, obscuring surface. Leaves whitish or grayish

wide, open, erect or nodding; branches usually longer than the spikelets, ascending to widely spreading, slender, slightly curved or straight. Spikelets

magenta, or salmon, rarely yellow, oblong to narrowly lanceolate or narrowly oblanceolate, deeply 0–3 (–5) -lobed; lobes spreading, oblanceolate or linear

"and\/or height or length or size","and\/or length or size","and\/or pubescence","and\/or shape","and\/or; and\/or vestiture coloration","and\/or; and\/or

caudex; with a taproot. Stems few-to-many, ascending to erect, unbranched, hairs dense, appressed-ascending, matted, long, soft, branched, eglandular,

architecture or pubescence or relief","blade architecture or shape","blade pubescence","blade relief","branch architecture or pubescence or relief","branch

"and\/or height or length or size","and\/or length or size","and\/or pubescence","and\/or shape","and\/or; and\/or vestiture coloration","and\/or; and\/or

prostrate or ascending, 4–15 (–25) cm, retrorsely hairy, hairs appressed, white, scalelike. Leaves not leathery, densely retrorsely hairy, hairs appressed, white

"and\/or height or length or size","and\/or length or size","and\/or pubescence","and\/or shape","and\/or; and\/or vestiture coloration","and\/or; and\/or

"and\/or height or length or size","and\/or length or size","and\/or pubescence","and\/or shape","and\/or; and\/or vestiture coloration","and\/or; and\/or

"and\/or height or length or size","and\/or length or size","and\/or pubescence","and\/or shape","and\/or; and\/or vestiture coloration","and\/or; and\/or

"and\/or height or length or size","and\/or length or size","and\/or pubescence","and\/or shape","and\/or; and\/or vestiture coloration","and\/or; and\/or

shape","fruit some measurement","hair architecture","hair architecture or function or pubescence","hair course","hair shape","hypanthium atypical length"

"filament pubescence","hair arrangement or shape","hair pubescence","inflorescence architecture or arrangement","inflorescence position or structure subtype"

"and\/or height or length or size","and\/or length or size","and\/or pubescence","and\/or shape","and\/or; and\/or vestiture coloration","and\/or; and\/or

pubescence","hair architecture","hair arrangement or shape","hair pubescence","inflorescence architecture or arrangement","inflorescence position or structure

hairs dense, appressed to ascending, 0.5–1.5 mm. Cauline leaves (1–) 2–3. Inflorescences (5–) 10–30-flowered, (1–) 1.5–4 (–6) cm diam., flowers arranged

pubescence","hair architecture","hair arrangement or shape","hair pubescence","inflorescence architecture or arrangement","inflorescence position or structure

height or length or size","glume length or size","glume quantity","glume size","glume variability","hair architecture or shape","hair quantity","hair shape"

more or less densely pilose on the lower 1/2 or 3/4, lower lemmas in a spikelet glabrous across the backs, uppermost lemmas with appressed hairs on the

prickles paired or single, usually curved, sometimes erect, or declined, appressed, stout, 6–10 × 4–10 mm, base glabrous, internodal prickles or aciculi rare

rootstocks or rhizomes to 10 cm, not freely rooting, not matted. Stems erect or ascending, base decumbent, usually rooting, usually stellate-hairy and/or spreading-bristly

several, erect to ascending, decumbent at base, unbranched except for small, leafy axillary shoots, hairs weakly spreading to appressed, ± matted, especially

sparsely or densely short-villous (hairs loosely appressed to ascending or spreading), eglandular. Leaves mostly basal (persistent) (eciliate or weakly ciliate

moderately to densely strigose (hairs appressed to ascending, 0.1–0.8 (–2) mm, sometimes spreading at bases or throughout), eglandular or glands minute

taproot. Stems few-to-many, erect to ascending, branched, sometimes unbranched, hairs fairly dense, spreading to appressed, white, fairly short, soft, ± felty

many, ascending, linear to subulate, 2–4 mm, grading into phyllaries. Involucres cylindric, (4–) 4.5–6 (–7) mm. Phyllaries in 4–6 series, appressed or recurved-spreading

quantity","flower architecture","hair atypical quantity","hair coloration","hair position or shape","hair pubescence or texture","leaf axis coloration"

splitting to 16, erect to spreading when dry, densely and coarsely papillose; endostome segments 8, occasionally rudimentary, of 1 or 2 rows of cells, smooth

matted, usually grayish to grayish green. Stems ascending to erect, (1–) 2–7 dm, hairs ascending to appressed. Basal leaves ± planar, (4–) 8–20 (–30) × 0.8–2

"filament pubescence","hair arrangement or shape","hair pubescence","inflorescence architecture or arrangement","inflorescence position or structure subtype"

biennial, densely silky-strigillose, at least proximally, also sparsely villous with long, appressed hairs, sometimes also villous with spreading, pustulate

cells 1-papillose or prorulose. > 9 9 Stems 2-or 3-pinnate, forming ascending series of flat, frondose tiers. Hylocomium 9 Stems simple or 1-pinnate, not