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Muhlenbergia californica

Species of flowering plant From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Muhlenbergia californica
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Muhlenbergia californica is an uncommon species of grass known by the common name California muhly.

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Distribution

It is endemic to California Transverse Ranges, where it is known only from the San Bernardino Mountains in Southern California.[1][2]

It grows in moist habitat, such as streambanks and ditches, in the chaparral and woodlands.

Description

Muhlenbergia californica is a rhizomatous perennial grass growing 30 to 70 centimeters tall. The inflorescence is a narrow array of thin branches bearing many tiny pointed or awned hairy spikelets each a few millimeters long.

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