Muhlenbergia bushii R. Pohl. Nodding Muhly Habit: Perennial with numerous slender scaly rhizomes. Culms: Slender, suberect, 50 cm. tall, more or less, freely branching at the middle nodes, the branches lax, glabrous or obscurely scabrous below the nodes. Blades: Flat, spreading, scaberulous, mostly 7-15 cm. long and 3-5 mm. wide, the lower shorter than the upper. Sheaths: Mostly shorter than the internodes. Ligule: Membranous, about 1 mm. long. Inflorescence: Panicles numerous on main culm and branches, on filiform peduncles mostly 8-15 cm. long, slender, lax, with relatively few spikelets, often i ncluded at the base, the slender branches mostly appressed. Spikelets: 1-flowered, exclusive of the awn 3-3.5 mm. long, narrowly lanceolate, rachilla disarticulating above the glumes. Glumes: Subequal, the second about two thirds as long as the lemma, the first usually slightly shorter, acute, scabrous on the keel, awntipped. Lemmas: 2.5-3.5 mm. long, narrow, membranous, 3-nerved, hairy towards the base with hairs less than 1 mm. long, glabrous to hispidulous above, tapering into a slender awn 3-6 mm. long, rarely shorter. Palea: Thin, somewhat shorter than the lemma. Fruit: Grain closely enveloped by the lemma. Habitat: Low woods. Kansas Range: East third. Synonyms: Muhlenbergia brachyphylla Bush