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|accepted_name=Muhlenbergia andina
|accepted_authority=(Nutt.) Hitchc.
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|common_names=Foxtail muhly
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae;Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae;Muhlenbergia;Muhlenbergia andina
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Muhlenbergia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Muhlenbergia andina]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
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|treatment_page=page 156
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; rhizomatous, not cespitose. <b>Culms</b> 25-85 cm tall, 0.9-1.7 mm thick, ascending; internodes glabrous for most of their length, scabrous to strigose below the nodes. <b>Sheaths</b> scabridulous, especially basally; ligules 0.5-1.5 mm, membranous, truncate, lacerate to ciliate; blades 4-16 cm long, 2-4(5) mm wide, flat, scabrous abaxially, pubescent adaxially. <b>Panicles</b> 2-15 cm long, 0.5-2.8 cm wide, contracted, dense; primary branches 0.5-5 cm, appressed to strongly ascending; pedicels 0.5-1.5 mm, appressed, strigose. <b>Spikelets</b> 2-4 mm. <b>Glumes</b> equal to subequal, 2-4 mm, subequal to or longer than the florets, 1-veined, veins scabridulous, apices acuminate to awn-tipped; lemmas 2-3.5 mm, lanceolate, grayish-green, hairy on the calluses and lemma bases, hairs 2-3.5 mm, apices acuminate, awned, awns 1-10 mm; paleas 2-3.5 mm, lanceolate, bases with silky hairs between the veins, apices acuminate; anthers 0.4-1.5 mm, yellow. <b>Caryopses</b> 0.9-1.1 mm, cylindrical, yellowish-brown. <b>2n</b> = 20.</span><!--

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|distribution=Colo.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Utah;Calif.;Oreg.;Kans.;Mont.;Wyo.;Wash.;Ariz.;B.C.;Man.;Sask.;Idaho;Nev.
|discussion=<p><i>Muhlenbergia andina</i> grows in damp places such as stream banks, gravel bars, marshes, lake margins, damp meadows, around springs, and in canyons, at elevations of 700-3000 m. It grows only in the western part of southern Canada and the contiguous United States.</p>
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|authority=(Nutt.) Hitchc.
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|distribution=Colo.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Utah;Calif.;Oreg.;Kans.;Mont.;Wyo.;Wash.;Ariz.;B.C.;Man.;Sask.;Idaho;Nev.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae
|genus=Muhlenbergia
|species=Muhlenbergia andina
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