Poaceae
Slender muhly
Muhlenbergia tenuifolia
- Family
- Poaceae
- Genus
- Muhlenbergia
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Muhlenbergia tenuifoliaPoaceae
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Common names
By language (1)
- English
- Slender muhly
Synonyms
- Agrostis quitensis Willd. ex Steud.
- Arundo quitensis Spreng.
- Arundo quitensis (Kunth) Poir.
- Arundo tenuifolia (Kunth) Poir.
- Calamagrostis mexicana Kunth
- Calamagrostis quitensis Kunth
- Calamagrostis tenuifolia Kunth
- Muhlenbergia calamagrostidea Kunth
- Muhlenbergia longiseta Benth.
- Muhlenbergia monticola Buckley
- Muhlenbergia quitensis (Kunth) Hitchc.
- Muhlenbergia sylvatica var. flexuosa Vasey
- Podosemum tenuifolium (Kunth) Nees
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Lifespan
- Annual, Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Lower 48 states: native
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.