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Mexican Muhly

Muhlenbergia mexicana (L.) Trin.

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Muhlenbergia foliosa (R. & S.) Trin. Gram. Unifl. 190. 1824
Agroslis filiformis Willd. Enum. 9.S. 1809. (Type from Pennsylvania.) Not A.filiformis Vill. 1787.
Agroslis foliosa " Hortul."; R. & S. Syst. Veg. 2: 373. 1817. (Basis of Muhlenbergia foliosa Trin.)
Trichochloa foliosa Trin. Fund. Agrost. 117. 1820. (Based on Agroslis filiformis Willd.)
Cinna filiformis Link, Enum. 1: 70. 1821. (Based on Agroslis filiformis Willd.)
Agroslis lateriflora vsiT. filiformis Torr. 'P. V.S.I. ii6. 1823. (Based on .A. ^/(/bcmjj Muhl. [error
for Willd.].) Podosaemum foliosum Link, Hort. Berol. 1: 83. 1827. (Based on Agroslis foliosa R. & S.) Muhlenbergia mexicana var. purpurea Wood, Bot. & Flor. ed. 1873. 386. 1873. (Type from Illinois.) Muhlenbergia mexicana filiformis Scribn. Mem. Torrey Club 5: 36. 1894. (Based on A.filiformis
Muhl. [error for Willd.].) .Muhlenbergia polystachya Mackenzie & Bush, Man. Fl. Jackson Co. 23. 1902. (Type from Sibley,
Missouri, Mackenzie 637.) Muhlenbergia ambigua vas . filiformis Farwell, Rep. Mich. Acad. 20: 168. 1918. (Based on Agroslis filiformis Muhl. [error for Willd.].)
Perennial, with creeping scaly rhizomes, resembling M. mexicana and M. umbrosa in habit; culms scaberulous below the nodes; sheaths glabrous, keeled; ligule about 0.5 mm. long; panicles mostly exserted, often rather long-exserted, narrow, of numerous short, appressed, densely flowered, somewhat aggregate branches; spikelets 2-3 mm. long; glumes narrow, attenuate into a short awn, about as long as the acuminate to awn-tipped lemma, the lemma long-pilose below.
Type locality: Garden specimen; seed from North America.
Distribution: Moist thickets, low woods, and low open ground, Quebec and Maine to Montana, and southward to North Carolina, Indiana, Kansas, New Mexico, and Arizona. Ili.I'STration: Hitchc. Man./. 776.
Muhlenbergia foliosa var. setiglumis (S. Wats.) Scribn. Rhodora 9: 20. 1907. (Based on M. sylvalica var. setiglumis S. Wats. Published as M. foliosa setiglumis .) Muhlenbergia ambigua Torr. in Nicollet. Rep. 164. 1843. (Type from "Okaman Lake, Sioux Country.") Muhlenbergia sylvatica var. setiglumis S. Wats, in Bot. King's Expl. 5: 378. 1871. (Basis of M. foliosa var. setiglumis Scribn.) Muhlenbergia foliosa ambigua Scribn. Rhodora 9: 20. 1907. (Based on M. ambigua Torr.) Muhlenbergia setiglumis Nels. & Macbr. Bot. Gaz. 61: 30. 1916. (Based on M. sylvaiUa var. seliglumis S. Wats.) MuhUnhergia foliosa f. ambigua Wiegand, Rhodora 26: 1. 192+, (Based on M. ambigua Torr.) Lemmas awned, the awn 4-10 mm. long. Type uocai.itv: Humboldt Pass, Nevada, Watson 1288. Distribution: About the same range as the species; also Washington to northern California and Nevada.
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Albert Spear Hitchcock. 1935. (POALES); POACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 17(6). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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Comprehensive Description

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Muhlenbergia mexicana (L.) Trin. Gram. Unifl. 189. 1824
Agroslis mexicana L. Mant. 1: 31. 1767.
Agroslis lateriflora Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 53. 1803. (Type from Mississippi River, Illinois,
Michaux.) Vilfa mexicana Beauv. Agrost. 16, 148, 181. 1812. (Based on Agroslis mexicana L.) Vilfa lateriflora Beauv. Agrost. 16, 147, 181. 1812. (Based on Agroslis lateriflora Michx.) Cinna f mexicana Beauv. Agrost. 32, 148, 158. 1812. (Based on Agroslis mexicana L.) Trichochloa mexicana Trin. I'und. A^TOst. \7. 1820. (Based on Agroslis mexicana h.) Podosaemum mexicanum Link, Hort. Berol. I; 84. 1827. (BaSed on Muhlenbergia mexicana
"Linn.") Cinna lateriflora Kunth, Rev. Gram. 1: 67. 1829. (Ba.sed on .groslis lateriflora Michx.) Muhlenbergia lateriflora Trin.; Kunth, Enum. PI. 1: 207. 1833. (Based on Agroslis lateriflora
Michx.) Polypogon canadensis Fourn. Mex. PI. Gram. 92. 1886. (Based on Agroslis mexicana L.)
Perennial, with creeping scaly rhizomes; culms decumbent and rooting at base, freely branching from all the nodes, 50-100 cm. tall, the branches ascending, the plants becoming topheavy and bushy, the culms glabrous below the nodes; sheaths glabrous, somewhat keeled; ligule irregularly dentate, about 1 mm. long; blades flat, scabrous, usually less than 10 cm. long, but sometimes as much as 15 cm., 3-7 mm. wide; panicles numerous, short-exsertcd or partly included, terminal and axillary, the larger as much as 10 cm. long, the axillary shorter, narrow, the branches ascending, mostly densely flowered from the base, the axis and branches scabrous, the very short pedicels scabrous-pubescent; glumes narrow, 2-3 ram. long or slightly longer, tapering into an awn-tip; lemma about equaling the glumes, acuminate, short-pilose at base.
Typb locality: Grown at Upsala, erroneously credited to tropical America. Distribution: Thickets, low ground and waste places. New Brunswick to North Dakota, and southward to the mountains of Georgia and Texas.
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Perennials, Terrestrial, not aquatic, Rhizomes present, Rhizome elongate, creeping, stems distant, Stems nodes sw ollen or brittle, Stems erect or ascending, Stems terete, round in cross section, or polygonal, Stems branching above base or distally at nodes, Stem internodes hollow, Stems with inflorescence less than 1 m tall, Stems, culms, or scapes exceeding basal leaves, Leaves mostly cauline, Leaves conspicuously 2-ranked, distichous, Leaves sheathing at base, Leaf sheath mostly open, or loose, Leaf sheath smooth, glabrous, Leaf sheath or blade keeled, Leaf sheath and blade differentiated, Leaf blades linear, Leaf blades 2-10 mm wide, Leaf blades mostly flat, Leaf blades mostly glabrous, Ligule present, Ligule an unfringed eciliate membrane, Inflorescence terminal, Inflorescence a contracted panicle, narrowly paniculate, branches appressed or ascending, Inflorescence a dense slender spike-like panicle or raceme, branches contracted, Inflorescence solitary, with 1 spike, fascicle, glomerule, head, or cluster per stem or culm, Inflorescence branches more than 10 to numerous, Flowers bisexual, Spikelets pedicellate, Spikelets laterally compressed, Spikelet less than 3 mm wide, Spikelets with 1 fertile floret, Spikelets solitary at rachis nodes, Spikelets all alike and fertille, Spikelets bisexual, Spikelets disarticulating above the glumes, glumes persistent, Spikelets disarticulating beneath or between the florets, Rachilla or pedicel glabrous, Glumes present, empty bracts, Glumes 2 clearly present, Glumes equal or subequal, Glumes shorter than adjacent lemma, Glumes awned, awn 1-5 mm or longer, Glumes 1 nerved, Lemmas thin, chartaceous, hyaline, cartilaginous, or membranous, Lemma similar in texture to glumes, Lemma 3 nerved, Lemma glabrous, Lemma apex acute or acuminate, Lemma awnless, Lemma margins thin, lying flat, Lemma straight, Callus or base of lemma evidently hairy, Callus hairs shorter than lemma, Palea present, well developed, Palea membranous, hyaline, Palea about equal to lemma, Palea 2 nerved or 2 keeled, Stamens 3, Styles 2-fid, deeply 2 -branched, Stigmas 2, Fruit - caryopsis, Caryopsis ellipsoid, longitudinally grooved, hilum long-linear.
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Muhlenbergia mexicana

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Muhlenbergia mexicana, known by the common names Mexican muhly and wirestem muhly, is a species of grass. It is native to North America, including most of the United States and southern Canada. It actually does not occur in Mexico.[1]

Habitat

Muhlenbergia mexicana is known mainly from moist and wet habitat, such as meadows, wetlands, seeps, and drainage ditches.

Description

Muhlenbergia mexicana is a rhizomatous perennial herb growing 30 to 70 centimeters tall. The inflorescence is a narrow series of short, appressed to upright branches lined densely in small, pointed spikelets each a few millimeters long.

References

  1. ^ Peterson, Paul M. (2003). "Muhlenbergia mexicana". Manual of Grasses for North America. Archived from the original on 2012-04-06.

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Muhlenbergia mexicana: Brief Summary

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Muhlenbergia mexicana, known by the common names Mexican muhly and wirestem muhly, is a species of grass. It is native to North America, including most of the United States and southern Canada. It actually does not occur in Mexico.

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