Muhlenbergia minutissima
Annual muhly
Family: Poaceae · Type: annual · Native
Annual muhly is a California native annual grass found in the Klamath Ranges, northern Sierra Nevada, San Bernardino Mountains, San Jacinto Mountains, and eastern Sierra Nevada on open, somewhat disturbed sandy slopes and seeps at elevations of 400 to 2,300 meters. Flowering from July to October, this delicate grass produces small spikelets with distinctive purple anthers. Growing with ascending to erect stems 2 to 30 centimeters tall, it forms slender, open grass clusters. Its narrow leaves are flat, 0.5 to 4 centimeters long and 1 to 2 millimeters wide, with truncate ligules. The plant features compact, narrowly ovoid inflorescences with ascending branches that spread less than 80 degrees from the central axis.
Habitat: Open, +- disturbed, sandy slopes, seeps
Bloom period: Jul-Oct
Elevation: 400-2300 m
Bioregions: KR, n&c SNH, SnBr, SnJt, SNE
California counties: Plumas, Butte, Trinity, Riverside, San Bernardino, Mono, Mariposa, Tuolumne, Nevada, San Diego
Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.