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Muhlenbergia glomerata
Also called Bog Muhly, Bristly Muhly, Marsh Muhly, Spike Muhly, Common Bog Muhly
Spiked muhly is a native North American grass that forms clumps with rhizomes and grows in wet places like bogs, marshes and lakeshores. It does best kept consistently moist, and is rarely grown in gardens outside wetland or rain garden settings.
Muhlenbergia glomerata is a species of grass known as spiked muhly and marsh muhly. It is native to North America, where it occurs across Canada and the northern half of the United States.
This North American grass is found in moist areas in various habitat types. It grows in bogs, marshes, meadows, ditches, fens, swamps, riversides and lakeshores, hot springs, wet forests, alvars, and seasonally flooded land. It occurs in cooler, more moist places than many other C4 species. It occurs less often in dry places.
Muhlenbergia alopecuroides · Foxtail muhly · Devils Canyon muhly · Scratchgrass · California muhly · Hairawn muhly · Plains muhly · Bamboo muhly · Cutover muhly · Pullup muhly · Wirestem muhly · Lindheimer's muhly
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Muhlenbergia glomerata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
