PLAINS MUHLY
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Muhlenbergia cuspidata (Torr. ) Rydb.
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| Saline County, Kansas |
| Perennial |
| Height: 8-16 inches |
| Family: Poaceae - Grass Family |
| Flowering Period: July, August, September |
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| Culms: | | Slender, stiffly erect, solid, flattened, minutely hairy below nodes, often thickened and bulblike at base; rhizomes absent. Forms tufts or small clumps. | | Blades: | | Erect or ascending, flat, folded longitudinally or with margins loosely involute, 2 to 9 inches long, to .12 inch wide. | | Sheaths: | | Keeled, glabrous or rough. | | Ligules: | | Minute, .01 to .02 inch, membranous. | | Inflorescences: | | Panicle, very slender, spike-like, 2 to 5 inches tall, base not enclosed by sheath; branches short, appressed to rachis. | | Spikelets: | | Short-stalked, 1-flowered, .1 to .16 inch; glumes nearly equal, 1-nerved, lanceolate-subulate, .06 to .12 inch, overlapping at base, tips sharply pointed , awnless or with minute awn; lemma lanceolate to narrowly ovate, .1 to .16 inch, 3-nerved, acuminate, awnless, minutely pubescent on back, otherwise glabrous. | | Habitat: | | Prairies, open hillsides, stony slopes; dry or gravelly soils. | | Distribution: | | East 3/5 of Kansas | | Origin: | | Native | | Uses: | | The Navajo used the stems to make hair brushes and brooms. |
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| Plains muhly inflorescences |  | | 74 KB | | Saline County, Kansas |
| | Plains muhly inflorescence |  | | 31 KB | | Saline County, Kansas |
| | Plains muhly spikelets |  | | 66 KB | | Leavenworth County, Kansas |
| | Plains muhly |  | | 156 KB | | Saline County, Kansas |
| | Plains muhly |  | | 171 KB | | Leavenworth County, Kansas |
| | Plains muhly |  | | 125 KB | | Leavenworth County, Kansas |
| | Plains muhly |  | | 254 KB | | Ottawa County, Kansas |
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