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Lindheimer Muhly
Muhlenbergia lindheimeri
Lindheimer Muhly is a large, fountain-shaped bunchgrass with fine, blue-green foliage that produces airy, silvery to light purplish-grey plumes in fall, holding their shape and color well into winter. It needs full sun and well-drained clay or loam soil, and once established tolerates drought reliably. Large enough for screening or a specimen planting, it also provides fair forage for livestock and wildlife and nesting material for birds.
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Growing profile
- Sun
- Full Sun
- USDA zone
- USDA 6–9
- Soil
- Clay · Loam
- Moisture
- Dry · Well-Drained
Vertical layer
Herbaceous- Soil pH
- 6–8
- Plant type
- Grass
- Mature height
- 2–5 ft
- Mature spread
- 3–4 ft
- Plant spacing
- Not yet recorded
- Root type
- Not yet recorded
- Spread pattern
- None
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