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|accepted_name=Muhlenbergia capillaris
|accepted_authority=(Lam.) Trin.
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|common_names=Hairy-awn muhly
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae;Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae;Muhlenbergia;Muhlenbergia capillaris
|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 capillaris]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
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|treatment_page=page 188
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; cespitose, not rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> 60-100 (150) cm, erect from the base, not conspicuously branched; internodes mostly glabrous, sometimes puberulent below the nodes. <b>Sheaths</b> glabrous or puberulent, basal sheaths rounded, often becoming fibrous, but never spirally coiled, at maturity; ligules 1.8-5(10) mm, membranous, firm, strongly decurrent, obtuse; blades 10-35(80) cm long, 2-4 mm wide, flat or involute, smooth abaxially, scabrous adaxially. <b>Panicles</b> 15-50(60) cm long, 5-30(41) cm wide, longer than wide, diffuse; primary branches 2-20 cm, capillary, diverging 30-100° from the rachises, naked basally, lower branches with 5-20 spikelets; pedicels 10-40(50) mm, longer than the spikelets, capillary, flexible. <b>Spikelets</b> 3-5 mm, usually purple, occasionally green, brown, or stramineous. <b>Glumes</b> subequal, (0.3)1-1.5(2) mm, usually less than 1/2 as long as the lemmas, glabrous; lower glumes 1-veined, usually unawned, rarely awned, awns 1-3 mm; upper glumes 1-veined, rarely 3-veined, acute to acuminate, often erose, usually unawned, rarely awned, awns 1-3(5) mm; lemmas 3-5 mm, lanceolate, not shiny, calluses shortly pubescent, apices scabrous, acuminate, sometimes with 2 setaceous teeth, teeth to 1 mm, unawned or awned, awns 2-13(18) mm, clearly demarcated from the lemma bodies; paleas 2-4.5 mm, lanceolate, acuminate, usually unawned; anthers 1.5-2 mm, purple. <b>Caryopses</b> 2-2.5 mm, narrowly elliptic, brownish. <b>2n</b> = unknown.</span><!--

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|distribution=Del.;D.C;W.Va.;Fla.;Puerto Rico;N.J.;Tex.;La.;Tenn.;N.Y.;Pa.;Va.;Ala.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ind.;Conn.;Md.;Kans.;Okla.;Mass.;Ohio;Mo.;Miss.;Ky.;N.C.;S.C.
|discussion=<p>In the southeastern United States, Muhlenbergia capillaris usually grows in rocky or clay soils in open woodlands and savannahs and on calcareous outcrops, at elevations of 0-500 m. In the northeastern states, it is also found on diabase and sandstone outcrops and ridges. Its native range includes the southeastern United States, Bahamas, and possibly various Caribbean islands. It is also grown as an ornamental.</p><!--
--><p>Muhlenbergia capillaris resembles M. reverchonii in many respects, but differs it is dull, apically scabrous lemmas.</p>
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name=Muhlenbergia capillaris
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|authority=(Lam.) Trin.
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|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Linda A. Vorobik and Annaliese Miller
|distribution=Del.;D.C;W.Va.;Fla.;Puerto Rico;N.J.;Tex.;La.;Tenn.;N.Y.;Pa.;Va.;Ala.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ind.;Conn.;Md.;Kans.;Okla.;Mass.;Ohio;Mo.;Miss.;Ky.;N.C.;S.C.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae
|genus=Muhlenbergia
|species=Muhlenbergia capillaris
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