Muhlenbergia racemosa (Michx.)
Green Muhly

Habit: 		Perennial, from stout creeping scaly rhizomes.
Culms: 		Erect or reclining 50-100 cm. tall, simple or sparingly branched, smooth or rough
		below the panicle and the nodes.
Blades: 	Flat, mostly appressed, 5-12 cm. long, 2-6 mm. wide, scabrous.
Sheaths: 	Shorter than the internodes, or those of the branches overlapping.
Ligules: 	Erose-truncate, 1 mm. long.
Inflorescence: 	Narrow, compact or lobed, bristly panicle 3-10 cm. long, erect or
		slightly nodding, the branches rather distinct, overlapping.
Spikelets: 	4-6 mm. long, much crowded, subsessile, 1-flowered, flower perfect,
		rachilla disarticulating above the glumes.
Glumes: 	Including the awn 4-6 mm. long, subequal, scabrous on the keel at least,
		stiffly awntipped.
Lemmas: 	About 3 mm. long, one half to two thirds as long as the glumes,
		acuminate to awn-pointed, pilose below, scabrous above, the 3-nerves prominent.
Palea: 		Thin, subequal, nearly equal to the lemma.
Fruit: 		Grain closely enveloped by the lemma.
Kansas Range:	Except southwest and southeast.
Remarks: 	The largest of our Muhlenbergias.