Muhlenbergia plumbea

Description

Muhlenbergia plumbea is a grass species first described by Carl Bernhard von Trinius, and became known as Albert Spear Hitchcock. Muhlenbergia plumbea is part of the Muhlenbergia genus, and the Poaceae family. The genus is named in honor of the German-American amateur botanist Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg (1753-1815). Many of the species are known by the common name muhly. The greatest number are native to the southwestern United States and Mexico, but there are also native species in Canada, Central and South America and in Asia.