Juncus textilis |
Juncus nodatus |
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basket rush, mat or basket rush |
stout rush |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, 10–20 dm. | Herbs, perennial, cespitose, 3–10 dm. |
Roots | without terminal tubers. |
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Rhizomes | long- creeping. |
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Culms | erect, 2–5 mm diam. |
erect, terete, 4–6 mm diam., smooth. |
Cataphylls | several. |
1–2, straw-colored, apex acute. |
Leaves | blade absent. |
basal 1–2, cauline 1–2; auricles 1.2–1.5 mm, apex rounded, scarious; blade straw-colored or green, terete, 20–65 cm × 1.1–3.5 mm, with prominent and conspicuous ringlike bands at position of cross partitions; distal cauline leaves reduced to 2.5 cm. |
Inflorescences | lateral, many flowered, loose; primary bract barely exceeding to many times longer than inflorescence. |
terminal panicles of 30–250 heads, 8–12 cm, branches spreading; primary bract erect to ascending; heads 2–10-flowered, broadly obovoid to hemispheric, 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, lance-subulate, apex acuminate; outer tepals 1.9–2.2 mm; inner tepals 1.7–2.1 mm; stamens 3, anthers equal filament length. |
Capsules | dark brown, 3-locular, oblate to narrowly ovoid, 3–4 mm, nearly equal to perianth. |
exserted, straw-colored, 1-locular, ovoid, 1.9–2.5 mm, apex acute, valves separating at dehiscence. |
Seeds | dark amber, oblate to ellipsoid, 0.5–0.8 mm. |
oblong or ellipsoid, 0.5–0.6 mm, not tailed; body clear yellow-brown. |
Juncus textilis |
Juncus nodatus |
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Phenology | Flowering and fruiting summer. | Fruiting late spring–late summer. |
Habitat | Moist or wet exposed areas | Commonly in shallow water, marshy shores, sloughs, wet flatwoods, and savannas, bogs, ditches, wet woods, shores, in standing water to 3 ft 1 m deep |
Elevation | 100–1800 m (300–5900 ft) | 100–200 m (300–700 ft) |
Distribution |
CA
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AL; AR; FL; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MO; OK; TN; TX
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Source | FNA vol. 22. | FNA vol. 22. |
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Synonyms | J. lesueurii var. elatus | J. acuminatus var. robustus, J. robustus |
Name authority | Buchenau: Abhandlungen herausgegeben vom naturwissenschaftlichen Vereine zu Bremen 17: 336. (1903) | Coville: in N. L. Britton and A. Brown, Ill. Fl. N. U.S., ed. 2 1: 482. (1913) |
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