Flora of North America species comparison

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Luzula multiflora subsp. frigida
Photo is of parent taxon

many-flower wood-rush
Cauline leaves

2–3, not overlapping;

proximal inflorescence bract not conspicuously exceeding inflorescence.
Capsules

dark chestnut to blackish, equal to slightly exceeding tepals.
Seeds

1.1–1.4 mm;

caruncle 0.2–0.3 mm.
Tepals

outer and inner whorl dark brown to chestnut to blackish, outer whorl pointed, inner whorl truncate-mucronate.
2n

= 36.

Luzula multiflora subsp. frigida
Phenology Flowering and fruiting summer.
Habitat Peaty barrens, slopes, fields, heaths, grasslands, and snowbeds
Elevation 50–1800 m (200–5900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AK; MA; ME; NH; VT; BC; LB; MB; NS; NT; NU; ON; QC; YT; Greenland; Eurasia
[BONAP county map]
Source FNA vol. 22.
Parent taxa Juncaceae > Luzula > subg. Luzula > Luzula multiflora
Sibling taxa
L. multiflora subsp. kobayasii, L. multiflora subsp. multiflora
Synonyms L. campestris var. frigida, L. frigida, L. multiflora var. fusconigra, L. sudetica var. frigida
Name authority (Buchenau) V. I. Krecztowicz: Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 12: 490. (1928)
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