Juncus effusus |
Juncus oxymeris |
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common bog rush, common rush, common soft rush, pasture rush, soft or lamp rush, soft rush |
point rush |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, 4–13 dm. | Herbs, perennial, rhizomatous, 3–6 dm. |
Rhizomes | short -branched, forming distinct, often large clumps. |
1–2 mm diam. |
Culms | erect, terete, 1–2.5 mm diam. at top of sheaths. |
erect, 2–4 mm diam. |
Cataphylls | several. |
0–1, straw-colored, apex narrowly acute. |
Leaves | blade absent. |
basal 1–3, cauline 3–4, straw-colored; auricles absent; blade 3–20 cm × 3–7 mm. |
Inflorescences | lateral, compound dichasia, many flowered; primary bract erect, terete, extending well beyond dichasium. |
panicles of 10–50 heads, 6–20 cm, erect to ascending branches; primary bract erect; heads 3–11-flowered, turbinate to hemispheric, 4–8 mm diam. |
Flowers | tepals tan or darker, usually with greenish midstripe, lanceolate, 1.9–3.5 mm; inner slightly shorter; stamens 3, filaments 0.5–0.8 mm, anthers 0.5–0.8 mm; style 0.2 mm. |
tepals straw-colored, lanceolate, 2.5–3.2 mm, nearly equal, apex acute to narrowly acuminate, mucronate; stamens 6, anthers 0.5–1.5 times length of filaments. |
Capsules | greenish tan or darker, 3-locular, broadly ellipsoid to oblate, 1.5–3.2 mm. |
exserted, chestnut brown, 1-locular, broadly lanceoloid to narrowly oblong, 3.3–4.7 mm, apex tapering to beak, separating at dehiscence. |
Seeds | amber, (0.3–)0.4–0.5 mm. |
obovoid, 0.5 mm, not tailed. |
2n | = 40, 42. |
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Juncus effusus |
Juncus oxymeris |
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Phenology | Flowering summer, fruiting summer–fall. | Fruiting late spring–fall. |
Habitat | Swamps and their edges, marshes, moist meadows, and moist or saturated soils, often conspicuous in pasture meadows where it is shunned by grazing animals | Stream and lake shores, montane meadows and seasonally emergent wetlands |
Elevation | Habitat??; 0–2500 m (Habitat??; 0–8200 ft) | 100–2000 m (300–6600 ft) |
Distribution |
AK; AL; AR; AZ; CA; CO; CT; DC; DE; FL; GA; IA; ID; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MO; MS; MT; NC; NE; NH; NJ; NV; NY; OH; OK; OR; PA; RI; SC; TN; TX; VA; VT; WA; WI; WV; WV; BC; MB; NB; NF; NS; ON; PE; QC
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CA; OR; WA; BC
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Discussion | The Juncus effusus complex has been variously recognized as containing several species or a single species with numerous infraspecific taxa. Unfortunately, North American treatments have dealt primarily with taxa in either the eastern or western portions of the continent. In considering the continent as a whole, little sense can be made of these treatments. The North American J. effusus complex is one that is in obvious need of modern systematic scrutiny. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Juncus oxymeris should be expected in Mexico (Baja California). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 22. | FNA vol. 22. |
Parent taxa | Juncaceae > Juncus > subg. Genuini | Juncaceae > Juncus > subg. Ensifolii |
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Synonyms | J. conglomeratus, J. effusus var. brunneus, J. effusus var. caeruleomontanus, J. effusus var. costulatus, J. effusus var. dicipiens, J. effusus var. exiguus, J. effusus var. gracilis, J. effusus var. pylaei, J. effusus var. solutus, J. effusus var. subglomeratus, J. griscomii | J. acutiflorus |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 326. (1753) | Engelmann |
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