''Muhlenbergia filiformis'', known by the common name Pullup muhly, is a species of

grass Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns an ...

. It is native to western North America from western Canada to northern Mexico. Pullup muhly grows in many types of moist to wet

habitat In ecology, the term habitat summarises the array of resources, physical and biotic factors that are present in an area, such as to support the survival and reproduction of a particular species. A species habitat can be seen as the physical ...

Description

''Muhlenbergia filiformis'' is an annual herb producing clumps of decumbent stems up to 30 centimeters long which root where their nodes touch the substrate. The

inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed o ...

is a narrow, cylindrical array of appressed branches bearing many spikelets each about a millimeter long.

External links

Jepson Manual Treatment - ''Muhlenbergia filiformis''USDA Plants ProfileGrass Manual Treatment''Muhlenbergia filiformis'' - Photo gallery
filiformis Grasses of the United States Grasses of Canada Grasses of Mexico Native grasses of the Great Plains region Native grasses of California Flora of Northwestern Mexico Flora of the Northwestern United States Flora of the Western United States Flora of New Mexico Flora of British Columbia Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States) Natural history of the California Coast Ranges Flora without expected TNC conservation status {{Chloridoideae-stub