Muhlenbergia pungens

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Muhlenbergia pungens, the sandhill muhly or wickiup grass, is a variety of muhly grass which is found in the arid regions of western North America. It is named after the botanist Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg.

It spreads by forming lateral underground stems and so forms clumps or tussocks. These are useful in binding dry, loose soil and so it may be propagated to stabilise slopes or control erosion. It has little agricultural use but may be eaten by foraging animals. It has been used by the Hopi of Arizona to make brushes.{{sfn|Kearney|Peebles|1942|p=113}}

Sandhill muhly grows in southwestern South Dakota, Kansas, southern Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and in the Texas Panhandle, as well as a disjunct area in Real County, Texas.{{sfn|Kartesz|2010}}

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|access-date=20 October 2012|year=1890}}

{{cite book |last=Kartesz|first=John T. | chapter=Asplenium | title=Biota of North America Program | year=2010 | chapter-url=http://www.bonap.org/BONAPmaps2010/Asplenium.html}}
{{cite book |author=Institute of Renewable Natural Resources|title=Field Guide to Texas Grasses

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0K0PEAQcEN8C&pg=PA667|access-date=2012-10-10

|date=2012-01-25|publisher=Texas A&M University Press|isbn=978-1-60344-186-5|page=667}}

{{cite book |last1=Kearney|first1=Thomas H.|last2=Peebles|first2=Robert H|title=Flowering Plants and Ferns of Arizona.|publisher=US Department of Agriculture|date=May 1942}}
{{cite book |last1=Kearney|first1=Thomas H.|last2=Peebles|first2=Robert H.|title=Arizona Flora, Second edition

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VAkHZ_ctLeoC&pg=PA109|access-date=2012-10-20

|date=1961-01-01|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-00637-9}}

{{cite web |ref={{harvid|Muhlenbergia pungens - USDA}} |url=http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=MUPU2 |title=Muhlenbergia pungens Thurb.

|publisher=United States Department of Agriculture

|access-date=2012-10-10}}

{{cite book |author=Nebraska. State Board of Agriculture|title=Annual Report|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5D0oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA244|access-date=20 October 2012

|year=1890|publisher=s.n.|page=244}}

{{cite book |last1=Samson|first1=Fred B.|last2=Knopf|first2=Fritz L.|title=Prairie Conservation: Preserving North America's Most Endangered Ecosystem

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZlHRjU2EDLQC&pg=PA58|access-date=2012-10-10

|date=1996-08-01|publisher=Island Press|isbn=978-1-55963-428-1|page=58}}

{{cite web |ref={{harvid|Sandhill Muhly - Sagebud}} |url=http://www.sagebud.com/sandhill-muhly-muhlenbergia-pungens/

|title=Sandhill Muhly (Muhlenbergia Pungens) |work=Sagebud

|access-date=2012-10-10}}

{{cite web |ref={{harvid|Sandhill Muhly - Utah State}} |url=http://extension.usu.edu/rangeplants/htm/sandhill-muhly

|title=Sandhill Muhly |publisher=Utah State University

|access-date=2012-10-10}}

{{cite book |title=Managing Changing Prairie Landscapes

|chapter=Shifting Sands: Climate Change Impacts on Sand Hills in the Canadian Prairies and Implications for Land Use Management|publisher=CPRC Press

|year=2005|isbn=9780889771772}}

pungens

Category:Flora of Northern America