Index / Search / Muhlenbergia capillaris
§1 Plant
Muhlenbergia capillaris (Lam.) Trin.
vernacular hairawn muhly — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Muhlenbergia
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- PR Puerto Rico Native
§2b
County-level range
· 136 counties across 15 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- High
- Anaerobic
- Medium
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 7 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 120 min.
- Precipitation
- 30–90 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.8–6.8
- Root depth
- 9 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 3 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Yellow-Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Moderate
- Flower colour
- Red
- Fruit colour
- Purple
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Fall
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Fall
- Seed ends
- Winter
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 1,400,000
- Propagation
- seed, sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 136 counties across 15 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 31 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Brevard 12009
- Broward 12011
- Charlotte 12015
- Citrus 12017
- Collier 12021
- Columbia 12023
- DeSoto 12027
- Dixie 12029
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Hernando 12053
- Lee 12071
- Leon 12073
- Madison 12079
- Manatee 12081
- Marion 12083
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Monroe 12087
- Nassau 12089
- Okeechobee 12093
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Sarasota 12115
- St. Johns 12109
- Suwannee 12121
- Taylor 12123
- Wakulla 12129
Georgia view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Chatham 13051
- Clarke 13059
- Cobb 13067
- Columbia 13073
- Cook 13075
- Decatur 13087
- DeKalb 13089
- Dooly 13093
- Dougherty 13095
- Elbert 13105
- Franklin 13119
- Gwinnett 13135
- Irwin 13155
- Jasper 13159
- Jeff Davis 13161
- Jones 13169
- Lee 13177
- Long 13183
- Madison 13195
- McIntosh 13191
- Morgan 13211
- Randolph 13243
- Sumter 13261
- Thomas 13275
- Tift 13277
- Toombs 13279
- Worth 13321
Kentucky view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 3 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 11 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Accomack 51001
- Albemarle 51003
- Brunswick 51025
- Charlotte 51037
- Chesterfield 51041
- Cumberland 51049
- Fairfax 51059
- Floyd 51063
- Fluvanna 51065
- Franklin 51067
- Greensville 51081
- Halifax 51083
- Lunenburg 51111
- Mecklenburg 51117
- Montgomery 51121
- Northampton 51131
- Pittsylvania 51143
- Prince Edward 51147
- Scott 51169
- Sussex 51183
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
- York 51199
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/MUCA2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2704016 ↗Record version
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