Juncus textilis |
Juncus compressus |
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basket rush, mat or basket rush |
compressed rush, round-fruit rush |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, 10–20 dm. | Herbs, perennial, to 8 dm. |
Rhizomes | long- creeping. |
short- creeping or densely branching, if densely branching herb appearing cespitose. |
Culms | erect, 2–5 mm diam. |
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Cataphylls | several. |
1–3. |
Leaves | blade absent. |
basal and cauline, 1–2; auricles 0.3–0.5 mm, scarious to membranous; blade flat to slightly channeled, 5–35 cm × 0.8–2 mm, margins entire. |
Inflorescences | lateral, many flowered, loose; primary bract barely exceeding to many times longer than inflorescence. |
5–60-flowered, lax, loose to moderately congested, 1.5–8 cm; primary bract usually exceeding inflorescence. |
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. |
bracteoles 2; tepals brownish, ovate to oblong, 1.7–2.7 mm; inner and outer series nearly equal, apex obtuse; stamens 6, filaments 0.5–0.7 mm, anthers 0.6–1 mm; style 0.3 mm. |
Capsules | dark brown, 3-locular, oblate to narrowly ovoid, 3–4 mm, nearly equal to perianth. |
brown or darker, pseudo-3-locular, widely ellipsoid to obovoid, 2.5–3.5 × 1.4–1.8 mm, exceeding tepals. |
Seeds | dark amber, oblate to ellipsoid, 0.5–0.8 mm. |
light brown, ellipsoid to lunate, 0.35–0.556 mm, not tailed. |
2n | = 44. |
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Juncus textilis |
Juncus compressus |
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Phenology | Flowering and fruiting summer. | Flowering and fruiting late spring–early summer. |
Habitat | Moist or wet exposed areas | Disturbed ground, especially ditches, along railroads and banks of canals and roadsides, frequently in saline or alkaline soils |
Elevation | 100–1800 m (300–5900 ft) | 1500–2100 m (4900–6900 ft) |
Distribution |
CA
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CO; MD; ME; MI; MN; MT; ND; NE; NY; UT; WI; WY; MB; NF; NS; ON; QC; Europe; w Asia [Introduced in North America]
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Source | FNA vol. 22. | FNA vol. 22. |
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Synonyms | J. lesueurii var. elatus | J. bulbosus, J. supinus |
Name authority | Buchenau: Abhandlungen herausgegeben vom naturwissenschaftlichen Vereine zu Bremen 17: 336. (1903) | Jacquin: Enumeratio Stirpium Pleraumque, quae sponte crescung in agro Vindobonensi 60, 235. (1762) |
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