Muhlenbergia arenicola Buckl.
Sand Muhly

Habit: 		Perennial resembling Muhlenbergia torreyi
Culms: 		30-50 cm. tall, tufted, erect or ascending, branching, slender, glabrous or
		puberulent at or near the nodes.
Blades: 	Usually straight, 5-13 cm. long, 1 mm. wide or less, involute, erect, scabrous.
Sheaths: 	Shorter than the internodes, rough to smooth.
Ligule: 	Membranous, 4-6 mm. long, decurrent.
Inflorescence: 	15-40 cm. long, short-exserted or sometimes included at the base,
		pale green or sometimes purplish, usually narrowly open, often nodding, branches
		usually ascending, the branchlets loosely appressed.
Spikelets: 	Exclusive of the awn 3 mm. long, 1-flowered, on slender scabrous pedicels
		usually about as long as the spikelet or the terminal longer.
Glumes: 	Subequal, half to two thirds as long as the lemma, acuminate, awn-pointed,
		scabrous on the nerve, otherwise smooth or scabrous.
Lemmas: 	Scabrous, with a few hairs at the base or glabrous, tapering into an awn 1-3 mm. long.
Palea: 		Thin, about as long as the lemma.
Habitat: 	Sandy plains, mesas and foothills.  August-September.
Kansas Range:	Russell county.