Juncus textilis |
Juncus supiniformis |
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basket rush, mat or basket rush |
hair-leaf rush, hairy-leaf rush, spreading rush |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, 10–20 dm. | Herbs, perennial, cespitose or matted, often decumbent, rooting at proximal nodes or floating, 0.3–5 dm. |
Rhizomes | long- creeping. |
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Culms | erect, 2–5 mm diam. |
erect, decumbent and rooting at nodes, or floating, terete, 1–2 mm diam., smooth. |
Cataphylls | several. |
0 or 1–2, straw-colored, apex acute. |
Leaves | blade absent. |
basal 1–3, cauline 1–4; auricles 0.8–2.1 mm, apex rounded to acute, membranaceous; blade terete, 3.7–15 cm × 0.4–1.3 mm, occasionally with filiform, flaccid, and floating leaves to 60 cm. |
Inflorescences | lateral, many flowered, loose; primary bract barely exceeding to many times longer than inflorescence. |
terminal racemes of 2–9 heads, 2–10 cm, branches erect; primary bract erect; heads 2–12-flowered, obconic or rarely hemispheric, 4–13 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 light brown or greenish to reddish brown, linear to narrowly lanceolate, apex acute to acuminate-subulate; outer tepals (2.1–)2.8–4.9 mm; inner tepals (2.1–)2.8–5.5 mm; stamens 3 or 6, anthers 1/2–3/4 filament length. |
Capsules | dark brown, 3-locular, oblate to narrowly ovoid, 3–4 mm, nearly equal to perianth. |
usually exserted, dark brown, 1-locular, ovoid to oblong, (3.2–)3.5–6.1 mm, apex acute to acuminate proximal to beak, valves separating at dehiscence. |
Seeds | dark amber, oblate to ellipsoid, 0.5–0.8 mm. |
narrowly obovoid to obovoid, 0.6–0.7 mm, not tailed; body clear yellow-brown.. |
n | = ca. 30, ca. 50–60, 2n = ca. 112. |
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Juncus textilis |
Juncus supiniformis |
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Phenology | Flowering and fruiting summer. | Fruiting mid summer–fall. |
Habitat | Moist or wet exposed areas | Pond, lake and river shores, marshes, bogs, and ditches |
Elevation | 100–1800 m (300–5900 ft) | 0–1000 m (0–3300 ft) |
Distribution |
CA
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AK; CA; OR; WA; BC
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Discussion | The northern California and southern Oregon populations (Juncus supiniformis in the strict sense) form long filiform leaves before flowering, are shorter, and have smaller flowers than the northern populations. Except for the filiform leaves, the variation in sizes appears to follow a rough latitudinal cline with the largest plants and largest flowers in Alaska. Flowers of Juncus supiniformis often form bulbils. (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 | J. oreganus, J. paucicapitatus |
Name authority | Buchenau: Abhandlungen herausgegeben vom naturwissenschaftlichen Vereine zu Bremen 17: 336. (1903) | Engelmann |
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