Juncus arcticus |
Juncus falcatus |
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arctic rush |
falcate rush, sickle-leaf rush |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, 2–10 dm. | Herbs, perennial, rhizomatous, 0.5–3 dm. | ||||||||||||
Rhizomes | long- creeping. |
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Culms | erect, 1–3 mm diam. |
erect, slightly compressed. |
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Cataphylls | several. |
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Leaves | blade usually absent (present in var. mexicanus). |
basal 2–4, cauline 1–3; auricles absent or rudimentary; blade flat, 4–15 cm × 1.5–3 mm. |
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Inflorescences | lateral, 3–many-flowered, loose to congested; primary bract barely exceeding to many times longer than inflorescence. |
glomerules, (1–)2–5, each with 2–15 flowers, open or aggregate; primary bract usually exceeding inflorescence. |
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Flowers | variously pedicellate; bracteoles membranous; tepals chestnut brown or paler, lanceolate, (2.5–)3.3–5.5(–6) mm, margins clear; inner series loosely subtending capsule at maturity; usually slightly shorter, margins scarious to clear, apex acutish to obtuse; stamens 6, filaments 0.2–1.1 mm, anthers 0.9–2.2 mm; style 0.9–1.5 mm. |
tepals brown, ovate-lanceolate, 4.5–6 mm, margins scarious, minutely papillate; inner series slightly shorter. |
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Capsules | 3-locular or infrequently pseudo-3-locular, oblate to narrowly ovoid, 3.5–4(–4.5) mm, equal to or exceeding perianth. |
brown, 3-locular, obovoid, 3–5 mm, shorter than perianth. |
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Seeds | dark amber, oblate to ellipsoid, 0.6–0.8 mm. |
ovoid to pyriform, 0.7 mm, not tailed. |
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Juncus arcticus |
Juncus falcatus |
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Distribution |
AK; AR; AZ; CA; CO; DE; IA; ID; IL; IN; KS; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MO; MT; ND; NE; NH; NM; NV; NY; OH; OK; OR; PA; SD; TX; UT; VA; VT; WA; WI; WV; WY; AB; BC; MB; NB; NS; NT; NU; ON; PE; QC; SK; YT; Mexico; South America; Asia
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AK; CA; OR; WA; BC; Pacific Islands
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Discussion | Numerous entities have been circumscribed and recognized at various nomenclatural ranks by a plethora of authors addressing state or regional floras. In considering the Juncus arcticus-balticus complex as a whole in North America, one is soon confronted with a wide-ranging and obviously polymorphic complex that has not read the literature. It is abundantly clear that the systematics of the group will not be solved on the basis of morphology alone and that resolution of the problem is ripe for molecular investigations. Varieties 3 7 (3 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 22. | FNA vol. 22. | ||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Juncaceae > Juncus > subg. Genuini | Juncaceae > Juncus > subg. Graminifolii | ||||||||||||
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Name authority | Willdenow: Sp. Pl. 2: 206. (1799) | E. Meyer: Syn. Luzul. 34. (1823) | ||||||||||||
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