G82 



BUSH MUHLY 



Muhlenber'gia por'teri 



Flower head (panicle) open, much 

 branched, the branches fine, long, 

 spreading 



Individual flower groups (spikelets) : 

 1-flowered, borne at the tips of flower- 

 head branches 



Outer flower bract (lemma) 3-nerved, 

 longer than glumes, tipped with a 

 straight or wavy but not twisted, slen- 

 der, persistent bristle (awn) % to % in. 

 long, in age closely enclosing " seed " 



Lowest (2) spikelet bracts (glumes) 

 thinj 1-veined, narrow, sharp-pointed, 

 persistent after grain has fallen 



Leaves up to 2 in. long, narrow, 

 finely pointed 



Stalks (culms) freely branching, with 

 prominent joints (nodes), wiry, some- 

 what sprawling, up to 2 ft. long, knotty 

 at the base 



Roots coarse, fibrous, somewhat 

 woody 



