Pink muhly
Muhlenbergia capillaris (Lam.) Trin.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 76 cm
- wide
- 91 cm
Poaceae
Also called Hairawn Muhly, Hairawn muhly grass, Pink muhly grass, Gulf muhly grass, Long-awn hairgrass
Formerly Muhlenbergia polypogon, Muhlenbergia trichodes, Podosemum agrostideum, Podosemum capillare, and 5 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- C. & E. U.S.A. to Guatemala, CaribbeanKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and UF/IFAS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 61 cm to 91 cmRead from NC State Extension and UF/IFAS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Spread
- 91 cmRead from NC State Extension and UF/IFAS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 28–36 in; UF/IFAS 3–3 ft
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from NC State Extension, UF/IFAS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by all 3 sources
- Flowers
- Pink, purple, redRead from NC State Extension, UF/IFAS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by 2 of 3 sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension cream, pink, purple, red; UF/IFAS pink, purple, white; Wikipedia pink, purple, red
- Coldest it survives
- -28.9 °C (USDA zone 5a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (6)
- Korean
- 핑크뮬리
- Chinese (China)
- 粉黛乱子草
- Hebrew
- מולנברגיה נימית
- Russian
- Мюленбергия волосовидная
- Slovak
- mulenbergia vláskovitá
- Chinese
- 毛发乱子草, 毛芒乱子草, 粉黛乱子草
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- UF/IFAS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Muhlenbergia capillaris (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.