Muhly (5)
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Mountain Muhly Family:
Grass (Poaceae) Grows to 3 feet tall in tufts. Side stems are short giving a long, narrow flower spike. Flower spikelets are about 3mm long and tipped with a 10mm bristle (awn). |
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Scratchgrass Family:
Grass (Poaceae) Grows to 2 feet with shiny, slightly flattened stems. The flower head is a very open, wispy array of many hair-thin, outstretched branches. The few purplish flower spikelets are at the branch end and have no bristle (awn). |
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Ring Muhly Family:
Grass (Poaceae) Grows low in a ring with curved leaves. The flower stem grows to 12" high. The flower heads are branched and spreading with the flowers at the branch ends. The flower spikelets are purplish and have awns. |
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Thurber's Muhly Family:
Grass (Poaceae) Grows to 14" high in a clump with very thin stems. Leaves are at the base of the stem and are also very thin and about 1" long. The flower head is a slender spike 1"-2" long. The flower spikelets are tiny and break off at maturity. |
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Sandhill Muhly Family:
Grass (Poaceae) Grows 4" to 24" high. It often forms large rounded clumps or rings, with it dying out in the center. Leaf blades are rigid, rolled inward and sharply tipped. The flower head is open, 3" to 6" long and 3" wide with hair-like branches. The flowers are purplish and may have tiny awns (bristles). |