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Origin: Native Season: Warm
Habitat Description: Sandy or gravelly hillsides, rocky slopes, and canyon bottoms; often in low lying depressions; pine forests, pinyon-juniper woodlands, grasslands, and riparian woodlands.
Plant Communities:Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Montane Conifer Forest, Riparian
Elevation: 3400 - 7000 feet
Similar Species: Muhlenbergia fragilis, Muhlenbergia minutissima
Desc:
Wispy annual growing up to 20 inches tall.
Identification Notes: Annual, 4 to 20 inches, highly branched at lower nodes. Spikelet stems elongate and sinuous, often tangled. M. minutissima spikelet stems are elongate, hair-like, straight. M. fragilis spikelet stems are short, not hair-like.
Grass Type: Annual Rhizomes: N Stolons: N
Large Dense Clump (> 2 feet): N Bushy (highly branched): N
Height with Seedheads: 12 to 24 inches
Seedhead Structure: Branched - open and spreading Seedhead Droops: N
Flowering Period: Aug - Oct
Number of Flowers per Spikelet: One-flowered Spikelets One-sided: N
Awns: Absent Three Awns: N Awns Bent: N
Flower and Seedhead Notes: Seedheads 4 to 10 inches, 1 to 3 inches wide; primary branches often thread-like, stalk to 1/4 inch, usually curved with spikelets, greenish and often mottled with purple.
Blade Hairy:
Y
Blade with White Margins:
N
Blade Cross section:
Flat
Blade Notes:
Blades 3/4 to 3-1/2 inches long, to 1/16 inch wide, flat, sometimes rolled inward, rough underside, clothed with short soft hairs or down to somewhat densely hairy with long, soft hairs on top of leaf, midveins prominent on underside of leaf.
Sheath Hairy:
N
Tuft of Hairs at top of Sheath or Collar:
N
Ligules:
Membranous
Auricles (Ear-like lobes at collar area:
N
Forage Value:
Not available.
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