Juncus acutiflorus |
Juncus subtilis |
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sharpflower rush |
creeping rush, greater creeping rush, jonc délié |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, rhizomatous, to 8 dm. | Herbs, perennial, emergent, rhizomatous (forming mats to 5 dm), 0.5–1 dm. |
Rhizomes | 5–6 mm diam., nodes not swollen. |
1 mm diam., nodes not swollen. |
Culms | erect, terete, 3 mm diam., smooth. |
repent, floating or submersed, usually profusely branched, terete, 0.5–1 mm diam. |
Cataphylls | 1, straw-colored, apex acute. |
absent. |
Leaves | basal 1, cauline 2; auricles 0.5 mm, apex rounded, cartilaginous; blade 7–45 cm x 1–2 mm, terete, not scabrous. |
basal 1–5, cauline 1–4, small fascicles of short capillary leaves often on rhizomes and stems; auricles 0.1–0.8 mm, apex acute, membranaceous; blade terete, 1.6–3 cm × 0.1–0.3 mm. |
Inflorescences | terminal panicles of 70–120 heads, 6–10 cm, branches ascending; primary bract erect; heads 3–5(–8)-flowered, obconic, 2–4 mm diam. |
cymes, flowers 1–3 at 1–2 nodes, 1–4 cm, branches spreading to erect. |
Flowers | tepals dark reddish brown, lanceolate, apex acuminate to subulate tipte; outer tepals 1.9–2.2 mm; inner tepals 2–2.3 mm; stamens 6, anthers 2 times filament length. |
tepals reddish, oblong; outer tepals 1.8–2.8 mm, obtuse; inner tepals 2.2–4.4 mm, obtuse; stamens 6, anthers 3/4 to equal filament length. |
Capsules | inserted with beak exserted, straw-colored, 1-locular, narrowly ovoid, 2.3–2.4 mm, tapering to subulate tip, valves separating at dehiscence. |
exserted, chestnut brown, 1-locular, ovoid to narrowly ovoid, 2.4–5 mm, apex acute proximal to beak, valves separating at dehiscence. |
Seeds | narrowly ovoid, 0.5–0.6 mm, not tailed; body clear yellow-brown. |
ovoid, 0.3–0.5 mm, not tailed; body clear yellow-brown. |
2n | = 40. |
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Juncus acutiflorus |
Juncus subtilis |
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Phenology | Fruiting fall. | Fruiting late summer–early fall. |
Habitat | Wet woods | Muddy, sandy or gravelly shores, fens in decomposed peat, fine muds rich in humus, and submersed in brackish pools |
Elevation | 0–10 m (0–0 ft) | 0–200 m (0–700 ft) |
Distribution |
NF; SPM; Europe; Asia; Africa |
ME; NB; NL; ON; QC; Greenland |
Discussion | Flowers are rarely replaced by bulbils. Most Greenland collections are sterile. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 22. | FNA vol. 22, p. 245. |
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Synonyms | J. uliginosus var. subtilis, J. pelocarpus var. subtilis, J. pelocarpus var. fluitans | |
Name authority | Ehrhart: in G. F. Hoffmann, Deutschl. Fl. 1: 125. (1791) | E. Meyer: Syn. Luzul. 31. (1823) |
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