Juncus textilis |
Juncus brachycarpus |
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basket rush, mat or basket rush |
short-fruit rush, white-root rush |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, 10–20 dm. | Herbs, perennial, not cespitose, rhizomatous, (3–)4.5–8(–9) dm. |
Rhizomes | long- creeping. |
tuberous, 3–4 mm diam. |
Culms | erect, 2–5 mm diam. |
erect, terete, 2–3 mm diam., smooth. |
Cataphylls | several. |
0(–1), straw-colored, apex acute. |
Leaves | blade absent. |
basal 1–2, cauline 2–4, auricles 0.5–3.5 mm, apex rounded, scarious; blade green to straw-colored, terete, 3–50 cm × 1–2 mm diam. |
Inflorescences | lateral, many flowered, loose; primary bract barely exceeding to many times longer than inflorescence. |
terminal panicles of 2–10(–20) heads or a single head, 1–4(–10) cm, branches ascending; primary bract erect; heads 30–100-flowered, spheric, 8–10 mm diam. |
Flowers | variously pedicellate; bracteoles membranous; tepals greenish to pale brown, lanceolate, 3.5–5 mm; inner series loosely subtending capsule at maturity, usually slightly shorter, margins scarious to clear, acutish; stamens 6, filaments 0.3–0.9 mm, anthers 1–2.5 mm; style 1–1.5 mm. |
tepals green to straw-colored, often red-tinted, lanceolate-subulate, apex acuminate; outer tepals 2.5–3.8 mm; inner tepals 2–3.2 mm; stamens 3, anthers 1/4–1/2 filament length. |
Capsules | dark brown, 3-locular, oblate to narrowly ovoid, 3–4 mm, nearly equal to perianth. |
included, chestnut brown, 1-locular, obconic or ovoid, 1.8–2.7 mm, apex obtuse, valves separating at dehiscence, fertile throughout or only proximal to middle. |
Seeds | dark amber, oblate to ellipsoid, 0.5–0.8 mm. |
ellipsoid to oblique-oblong, 0.3–0.4 mm, not tailed; cody clear to yellow-brown. |
2n | = 44. |
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Juncus textilis |
Juncus brachycarpus |
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Phenology | Flowering and fruiting summer. | Fruiting mid summer–fall. |
Habitat | Moist or wet exposed areas | Damp clayey, peaty, or sandy soils, swamps, ditches, ponds, wet woods, wet prairies |
Elevation | 100–1800 m (300–5900 ft) | 0–500 m (0–1600 ft) |
Distribution |
CA
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AL; AR; CT; DE; FL; GA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; MI; MN; MO; MS; NC; NJ; NY; OH; OK; PA; SC; TN; TX; VA; WV; ON
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Source | FNA vol. 22. | FNA vol. 22. |
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Synonyms | J. lesueurii var. elatus | |
Name authority | Buchenau: Abhandlungen herausgegeben vom naturwissenschaftlichen Vereine zu Bremen 17: 336. (1903) | Engelmann: in A. Gray, Manual of Botany of the Northern United States (ed. 5) 542. (1867) |
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