Muhlenbergia appressa |
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appressed muhly, devil's-canyon muhly, spreading littleseed muhly |
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Habit | Plants annual. |
Culms | 10-42 cm, erect or decumbent, much branched below; internodes mostly scabrous, scabrous or hispidulous below the nodes. |
Sheaths | usually shorter than the internodes, flattened below, glabrous, scabridulous or smooth, striate; ligules 1.5-3 mm, hyaline, acute, lacerate, with lateral lobes; blades 1-5(7) cm long, 0.8-1.6(2) mm wide, flat or involute, scabrous abaxially, pubescent adaxially. |
Panicles | 4-23 cm long, 0.5-2 cm wide, usually partially included in the subtending sheaths at maturity; primary branches 20-45 mm, ascending, closely appressed; pedicels 1-5 mm, appressed, scabrous; disarticulation above the glumes. |
Spikelets | 4-7.5 mm, borne singly. |
Glumes | 1-2 mm, 1-veined, veins conspicuous, scabrous, and greenish basally, apices obtuse to subacute, often erose; lemmas 4-6.2(7.5) mm, narrowly lanceolate, terete, mostly smooth, scabrous distally, hairy on the calluses and lower 1/4 of the margins, hairs 0.2-0.3 mm, whitish, lemma bodies not appearing 5-veined, apices acuminate, awned, awns 10-30 mm, straight, scabrous; paleas 3.8-5.7(7) mm, narrowly lanceolate; anthers 0.3-1.1 mm, purplish. |
Caryopses | 1.6-3 mm, narrowly fusiform, brownish to pinkish. |
Cleistogamous | spikelets usually present in the axils of the lower leaves. |
2n | = unknown. |
Muhlenbergia appressa |
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Distribution |
AZ; CA
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Discussion | Muhlenbergia appressa grows in sandy drainages, canyon bottoms, rocky road cuts, and sandy slopes, at elevations of 20-1750 m. Its range extends from Arizona to Baja California, Mexico. It grows in gramma grasslands, oak-juniper woodlands, and chaparral associations. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 25, p. 164. |
Parent taxa | Poaceae > subfam. Chloridoideae > tribe Cynodonteae > Muhlenbergia |
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Name authority | CO. Goodd. |
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