Index / Search / Muhlenbergia asperifolia
§1 Plant
Muhlenbergia asperifolia (Nees & Meyen ex Trin.) Parodi
vernacular scratchgrass — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Muhlenbergia
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 214 counties across 18 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- High
- Anaerobic
- Medium
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -18 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 120 min.
- Precipitation
- 12–40 in/yr
- pH range
- 6–8.4
- Root depth
- 8 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 2 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Yellow-Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Purple
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Early Summer
- Seed abundance
- Low
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 1,500,000
- Propagation
- seed, sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 214 counties across 18 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 32 N ▾
- Barber 20007
- Cheyenne 20023
- Clark 20025
- Cloud 20029
- Comanche 20033
- Decatur 20039
- Edwards 20047
- Ellis 20051
- Finney 20055
- Graham 20065
- Gray 20069
- Hamilton 20075
- Harper 20077
- Jackson 20085
- Kearny 20093
- Kingman 20095
- Logan 20109
- Meade 20119
- Morton 20129
- Pawnee 20145
- Pratt 20151
- Rawlins 20153
- Reno 20155
- Republic 20157
- Rice 20159
- Rooks 20163
- Saline 20169
- Sheridan 20179
- Sherman 20181
- Stafford 20185
- Trego 20195
- Wallace 20199
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Montana view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Banner 31007
- Box Butte 31013
- Buffalo 31019
- Butler 31023
- Cherry 31031
- Custer 31041
- Dawson 31047
- Dodge 31053
- Douglas 31055
- Dundy 31057
- Furnas 31065
- Garden 31069
- Grant 31075
- Hall 31079
- Harlan 31083
- Hitchcock 31087
- Holt 31089
- Kearney 31099
- Keith 31101
- Kimball 31105
- Lancaster 31109
- Lincoln 31111
- Scotts Bluff 31157
- Sheridan 31161
- Thomas 31171
- Webster 31181
New Mexico view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Bernalillo 35001
- Catron 35003
- Chaves 35005
- Colfax 35007
- Dona Ana 35013
- Grant 35017
- Guadalupe 35019
- Hidalgo 35023
- Lincoln 35027
- Luna 35029
- McKinley 35031
- Otero 35035
- Quay 35037
- Rio Arriba 35039
- San Juan 35045
- San Miguel 35047
- Sandoval 35043
- Santa Fe 35049
- Sierra 35051
- Socorro 35053
- Taos 35055
- Torrance 35057
- Union 35059
- Valencia 35061
New York view state ↗ 3 N ▾
North Dakota view state ↗ 32 N ▾
- Adams 38001
- Barnes 38003
- Bottineau 38009
- Bowman 38011
- Burke 38013
- Burleigh 38015
- Cass 38017
- Dickey 38021
- Divide 38023
- Eddy 38027
- Emmons 38029
- Foster 38031
- Golden Valley 38033
- Griggs 38039
- Kidder 38043
- Logan 38047
- McIntosh 38051
- McKenzie 38053
- McLean 38055
- Mountrail 38061
- Nelson 38063
- Pembina 38067
- Ramsey 38071
- Ransom 38073
- Richland 38077
- Slope 38087
- Steele 38091
- Stutsman 38093
- Traill 38097
- Walsh 38099
- Ward 38101
- Williams 38105
Ohio view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 2 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 13 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/MUAS ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2703974 ↗Record version
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