Le Jardin de Mère Nature dans une Petite Planète - Pima County

and dry rocky, gravelly, gravelly-sandy and sandy ground; rocky clay, gravelly clay and clay ground, and
gravelly-sandy silty, sandy silty and silty ground, occurring from sea level to 5,600 feet in elevation in the
forest, scrub, grassland, desertscrub and wetland ecological formations. NOTES: This plant may be an
Exotic. Leptochloa panicea subsp. mucronata is native to south-central and southern North America. *5,
6, 33 (recorded as Leptochloa mucronata pulchella Scribn., brief note on page 135), 43 (101509), 46 (no
record), 63 (101509), 85 (101509), 138*
Muhlenbergia microsperma (A.P. de Candolle) C.B. von Trinius: Littleseed Muhly
COMMON NAMES: Liendrilla Chica (Hispanic), Liendrilla Fina y Liendrilla Chica (Hispanic),
Little-seed Muhly, Littleseed Muhly. DESCRIPTION: Terrestrial annual graminoid (spreading or erect
culms 4 to 40 inches in height/length); the foliage may be purplish turning red with age; the inflorescence
is tinged with purple; the spikelets (flowers) are dark pink or purplish with purplish anthers; flowering
generally takes place between late January and mid-June (additional records: one for early January, one
for early September, one for mid-September, one for late September, one for mid-October, one for late
October, one for early November, three for mid-November, three for mid-December and two for late
December); the caryopsis (fruit) is reddish-brown. HABITAT: Within the range of this species it has been
reported from mountains; mountaintops; rocky mountainsides; mesas; rocky cliffs; bouldery, boulderyrocky-sandy,
rocky and sandy canyons; rocky canyon walls; rocky, rocky-silty, sandy and sandy-loamy
canyon bottoms; scree; talus slopes; along bases of cliffs; crevices in rocks; bluffs; buttes; rocky ledges,
rocky and cobbly-sandy-loamy ridges; clayey ridgetops; margins of meadows; foothills; rocky and rockysandy
hills; rocky, rocky-cobbly, rocky-gravelly and gravelly hillsides; bouldery, bouldery-sandy,
bouldery-loamy, rocky, rocky-gravelly, rocky-sandy, rocky-loamy-clayey, rocky-clayey, gravelly, sandy,
loamy, loamy-clayey and clayey slopes; bajadas; bouldery and rocky outcrops; amongst boulders and
rocks; lava bluffs; lava slopes; along lava slides; dunes; sandy plains; bouldery, rocky-sandy, gravelly and
sandy flats; rocky-gravelly coastal slopes; coastal plains; sandy coastal flats; gravelly valley floors; along
railroad right-of-ways; bouldery-gravelly-loamy and sandy roadsides; arroyos; in the shade of mesquite
trees in the bottoms of arroyos; gulches; rocky-sandy ravines; springs; along streams in the partial shade
of Mexican Blue Oaks; rocky and rocky-sandy streambeds; along creeks; along rivers; along and in rocky,
rocky-silty, gravelly, gravelly-sandy and sandy washes; silty-clayey drainages; drainage ways; gravellysandy
tinajas; depressions; along rocky, gravelly-sandy and sandy banks of arroyos, streams, washes and
drainages; edges of gullies; margins of riverbeds; benches; bottomlands; sandy floodplains; mesquite
bosques; around stock tanks (charcos); rocky margins of reservoirs; along and in ditches; sandy riparian
areas and disturbed areas growing in wet, moist and dry gravelly desert pavement; bouldery, boulderyrocky-sandy,
bouldery-sandy, rocky, rocky-cobbly, rocky-gravelly, rocky-sandy, gravelly, gravelly-sandy
and sandy ground; bouldery loam, bouldery-gravelly loam, rocky-clayey loam, cobbly-sandy loam,
gravelly loam, sandy loam and loam ground; rocky clay, rocky-loamy clay, loamy clay, silty clay and clay
ground, and rocky silty ground, occurring from sea level to 8,000 feet in elevation in the woodland, scrub,
grassland, desertscrub and wetland ecological formations. NOTES: This plant may be an attractive
component of a restored native habitat. This grass sometimes forms dense mound-like colonies.
Muhlenbergia microsperma is native to southwest-central and southern North America; North-central
Pacific Islands; Central America, and northern and western South America. *5, 6, 15, 16, 30, 33 (Pages
195-196), 43 (101609), 46 (Page 109), 63 (101609 - color presentation), 77, 85 (101709 - color
presentation of dried material)*
Muhlenbergia porteri F.L. Scribner ex W.J. Beal: Bush Muhly
COMMON NAMES: Bakú (Tarahumara), Bush-grass, Bush Muhly, Hoe Grass, Hoegrass,
Liendrilla Amacollada (Hispanic), Mesquite Grass, Mesquitegrass, Porter’s Muhlenbergia, Telaraña
(Hispanic), Zacate Aparejo (Hispanic). DESCRIPTION: Terrestrial perennial tufted graminoid (a
bunchgrass with geniculate culms 10 to 44 inches in height/length and 18 inches to 10 feet in width,
several plants were described as being 3 feet in height and 10 feet in width); the stems are dull green; the
leaves are green, purplish-green or yellow-green curing to buff; the panicles (compound inflorescences)