Es nativa del oeste de Norteamérica desde Columbia Británica a California y Texas, donde se le puede encontrar en hábitat de humedales tal como prados húmedos, pantanos y bancos de ríos.

Es una hierba perenne rizomatosa que alcanza una talla de 25 a 85 centímetros.

La inflorescencia es un racimo denso de ramas apegadas, verticales que llevan las espiguillas pequeñas, con pilosidades sedosas.

Muhlenbergia andina fue descrita por (Nutt.) Hitchc. y publicado en Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 66: 141. 1928.^[1]​

Etimología

Muhlenbergia: nombre genérico que fue otorgado en honor de Henry Ernest Muhlenberg.

andina: epíteto geográfico que alude a su localización en la Cordillera de los Andes.

Sinonimia

• Calamagrostis andina Nutt.
• Muhlenbergia comata (Thurb.) Benth. ex Vasey
• Vaseya comata Thurb. ex A.Gray^[2]​^[3]​

• Terminología descriptiva de las plantas
• Anexo:Cronología de la botánica
• Historia de la Botánica
• Características de las poáceas

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• BENSON, L. 1941. Taxonomic studies. Amer. Jour. Bot. 28:358-
• BOLANDER, G.1866. Grasses of the state. California State Agr. Soc. Trans. 1864-65:131-45.
• BOYLE, W. S.1945. A cyto-taxonomic study of the North American species of Melica. Madroño 8:1-26.CAMPBELL, D. H.1944. Relations of the temperate floras of North and South America. California Acad. Sci. Proc.25:139-46.
• CHANEY, R. W.1934. Redwoods of the past. 7 p. Published by Save-the-Redwoods League, Berkeley, Calif.CLEMENTS, F. E.1934. The relict method in dynamic ecology. Jour. Ecol. 22:39-68.
• CONZATTI, C.1943. Poaceas. p. 111-220. In: Flora taxonómica Mexicana. vol. 2. Monocotiledóneas. 279 p.Porfirio Díaz B., Oaxaca, Juárez, Mex.
• COOKE, W. B.1940. Flora of Mount Shasta. Amer. Midland Nat. 23:497-572. 1941. First supplement to theflora of Mount Shasta. Amer. Midland Nat. 26:74-84.
• COOPER, W. S.1922. The broad-sclerophyll vegetation of California: an ecological study of the chaparral andits related communities. Carnegie lnst. Washington Pub. 319:1-124.1936. Strand and dune flora of the Pacific Coast. p. 141-87. In: Goodspeed, T. H. Essays ingeobotany in honor of William Albert Setchell. xxvi + 320 p. University of CaliforniaPress, Berkeley, Calif.
• DAVY, J. B.1902. Stock ranges of northwestern California: notes on the grasses and forage plants and rangeconditions. U. S. Dept. Agr. Bur. Plant Indus. Bul. 12:1-81.
• DORE, W. G., and A. E. ROLAND. DORE, W. G.1941-42. The grasses of Nova Scotia. Nova Scotian Inst. Sei. Proc. and Trans. 20:177-288.
• EASTWOOD, A.1901. General botanical features of the Coast Mountains of California. Science (n.s.) 14:600.1941. The islands of southern California and a list of the recorded plants. Leaflets West. Bot.3:27-36.
• FOURNIER, E.1876. Sur la distribution geographic des Graminees Mexicaines. Ann. Soc. Nat. (ser.6) 9:261-90.
• GOULD, F. W.1945. Notes on the genus Elymus. Madroño. 8:42-47.
• GRAY, A.1846. Analogy between the flora of Japan and that of the United States. Amer. Jour. Sci. (n.s.)2:135.1858-59. Observations upon the relations of the Japanese flora to that of North America and ofother parts of the north temperate zone. Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci. Mem. (ser. 2) 6:377-452.
• GRIFFITH, D.1912. The grama grasses. U. S. Natl. Mus. Contrib. U. S. NatI. Herb. 14:343-428.
• HENRARD, J. TH.1938. Vicarious grasses, as demonstrated by a new species of Phalaris from South America.Blumea 3:168-72.
• HENDRY, G. W.1931. The adobe brick as a historical source. Agr. Hist. 5:110-27.HITCHCOCK, A. S.1923. Gramineae. (Revised by A. Chase.) p. 72-144. In: Jepson, W. L. (1925).1927. The grasses of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. U. S. NatI. Mus. Contrib. U. S. NatI. Herb.24:291-556. (See specifically p. 397.). 1935. Manual of the grasses of the United States. U. S. Dept. Agr. Misc. Pub. 200: 1-1040.
• HITCHCOCK, A. S. and AGNES CHASE.1910. The North American species of Panicum. U. S. NatI. Mus. Contrib. U. S. Natl. Herb.15:1-396. 1920. Revisions of North American grasses. U. S. NatI. Mus. Cohtrib. U. S.NatI. Herb. 22:1-77. (See specifically p. 45-77.)
• HOOVER, R. F..1941. The genus Orcuttia. Torrey Bot. Club BuI. 68:149-56.
• HOWELL, J. T.1946. Notes on the grass family in Marin County, California. Leaflets West. Bot. 4:243-47.
• JEPSON, W. L1925. A manual of the flowering plants of California. 1,238 p. Associated Students Store, University of California, Berkeley, Calif.
• JOHNSON, B. L.1945. Cyto-taxonomic studies in Oryzopsis. Bot. Gaz. 107:1-32.
• JOHNSTON, I. M.1943. Plants of Coahuila, eastern Chihuahua, and adjoining Zacatecas and Durango, II. Jour.Arnold Arb. 24:375-421.JONES, B. and R. M. LOVE.1945. Improving California ranges. California Agr. Exp. Cir. 129:1-48.
• LAWRENCE, W. E.1945. Some ecotypic relations of Deschampsia caespitosa. Amer. Jour. Bot. 32:298-314.
• MCARDLE, R. E., et al. 1936. The white man's toll. U. S. —Congo Senate Doc. 199:81-116.
• MCKENNEY, R. E. B..1901. Notes on plant distribution in southern California, U. S. A. Bot. CentbI. Beihefte. Abt. B,10:166-76.
• PARODI, L. R.1928. Sinposis de las Gramíneas Argentinas del género Muhlenbergia. Physis 9:205-22. 1937. Contribución de estudio de las Gramíneas de género Paspalum. Rev. del Mus. de laPlata (n.s.), Sec. Bot., 1:211-50. 1941. Revision de las Gramíneas Sudamericanas del género Hicrochloe. Rev. del Mus. de laPlata (n.s.), Sec. Bot., 3:183-212.
• PIEMEISEL, R. L., and F. R. LAWSON.1937. Types of vegetation in the San Joaquin Valley of California and their relation to the beet leafhopper. U. S. Dept. Agr. Tech. Bul. 557:1-28.
• PURER, E.1942. Plant ecology of the coastal salt marshlands of San Diego County, California. Ecol.Mono. 12:81-111.
• RIGG, G. B.1933. Notes on a sphagnum bog at Fort Bragg, California. Science (n.s.) 77:535-36.
• ROBBINS, W. W.1940. Alien plants growing without cultivation in California. California Agr. Exp. Sta. Bul. 637:1-128.
• RUSSELL, R. J.1926. Climates of California. Univ. California Pubs. Geog. 2:73-84.
• SAMPSON, A. W.1944. Plant succession on burned chaparral lands in northern California. California Agr. Exp. Sta. Bul. 685:1-144.
• SAMPSON, A. W., and AGNES CHASE.1927. Range grasses of California. California Agr. Exp. Sta. Bul. 430:1-94. (Out of print.) .
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• STANLEY D. Jones, J. K. Wipff, Paul M. Montgomery - 1997 - Gardening - 404 páginas
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• WEAVER, J. E., and T. J. FITZPATRICK 1932. Ecology and relative importance of the dominants of tall-grass prairie. Bot. Gaz. 93:113-50.

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