Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Muhlenbergia richardsonis [Muhlenbergia squarrosa] [Vilfa richardsonis]
- Family
- Poaceae
- CommonName
- mat muhly, soft-leaf muhly
- Presence
- yes
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1896
- LatestDate
- 2015
- Ecosystem
- basin, shrubland, foothill, montane, ruderal, sanddunes
- Geobotanical
- SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, NCristos, UBasin, LBasin
- Counties
- Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache
- Passes
- La Veta, North
- WildlifePreserves
- Baca, Great Sand Dunes, San Luis Lakes
- Other Localities
- PhotoRecords
- Comments
- NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. In the Watershed, mat muhly is a versatile grass, ranging from basin (including sand dunes) to montane. Muhlenbergia richardsoni prefers somewhat moist soil, along stream and pond banks, meadow slope run-off gulches, by road ditches, etc. In the USA, the species is wide spread in all Western states (but not the western slope of the Pacific Sierras) and the northern Plains. It follows the Rio Grande drainage solidly through New Mexico but not farther down stream into Texas. Allred et al. (2020) note that M. richardsoni is often confused with M. cuspidata and M. filiformis.
- Annotation