Juncus textilis |
Juncus elliottii |
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basket rush, mat or basket rush |
Elliott's rush |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, 10–20 dm. | Herbs, perennial, cespitose, 3–9 dm. |
Roots | often with terminal tubers. |
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Rhizomes | long- creeping. |
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Culms | erect, 2–5 mm diam. |
erect, terete, 1–3 mm diam., smooth. |
Cataphylls | several. |
1, maroon to brown, apex acute. |
Leaves | blade absent. |
basal 1–3, cauline 1–2; auricles 0.5–2 mm, apex rounded, scarious; blade green or maroon, compressed, 2–16 cm × 1–2 mm. |
Inflorescences | lateral, many flowered, loose; primary bract barely exceeding to many times longer than inflorescence. |
terminal panicles of 40–100(–200) heads, 4–16 cm, branches ascending to spreading; primary bract erect to ascending; heads 2–10-flowered, hemispheric to obpyramidal, 0.3–0.5 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 straw-colored, lanceolate, apex acuminate; outer tepals (2.2–)2.6–2.9 mm; inner tepals (1.8–)2.4–2.8; stamens 3, anthers 2/3 to equal filament length. |
Capsules | dark brown, 3-locular, oblate to narrowly ovoid, 3–4 mm, nearly equal to perianth. |
exserted, chestnut brown, 1-locular, narrowly obpyriform to narrowly ovoid, 2.4–2.9 mm, apex acute, valves separating at dehiscence. |
Seeds | dark amber, oblate to ellipsoid, 0.5–0.8 mm. |
ellipsoid, 0.3–0.5 mm, not tailed; body clearly yellow-brown. |
, with faint ringlike bands at position of septa. | ||
2n | = 40. |
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Juncus textilis |
Juncus elliottii |
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Phenology | Flowering and fruiting summer. | Fruiting summer. |
Habitat | Moist or wet exposed areas | Wet sands, peaty sands, or peat, exposed shores of ponds and lakes, depressions in savannas and flatwoods, moist to wet, much disturbed clearings, roadsides and ditches |
Elevation | 100–1800 m (300–5900 ft) | 0–700 m (0–2300 ft) |
Distribution |
CA
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AL; AR; DE; FL; GA; LA; MS; NC; NJ; SC; TN; TX; VA
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Discussion | Juncus elliottii has tubers at the ends of the roots. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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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) | Chapman: Fl. South. U.S. 494. (1860) |
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