Juncus nodatus Coville

Stout rush (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Juncaceae > Juncus

Characteristics

Herbs, perennial, cespitose, 3--10 dm. Roots without terminal tubers. Culms erect, terete, 4--6 mm diam., smooth. Cataphylls 1--2, straw-colored, apex acute. Leaves: basal 1--2, cauline 1--2; auricles 1.2--1.5 mm, apex rounded, scarious; blade straw-colored or green, terete, 20--65 cm x 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 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: 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 exserted, straw-colored, 1-locular, ovoid, 1.9--2.5 mm, apex acute, valves separating at dehiscence. Seeds oblong or ellipsoid, 0.5--0.6 mm, not tailed; body clear yellow-brown.
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Stems clustered, stout, erect, 6–12 dm, 3–10 mm thick at base; lvs coarse, elongate, terete and septate, the upper often reaching to the infl, the larger ones 3–5 mm thick; infl broadly pyramidal with numerous divaricate branches, decompound, 1–2 dm, with 200 or more obpyramidal, 2–7-fld heads 3–5 mm thick; fls eprophyllate; tep subequal, linear-subulate, much narrower than in the 2 preceding spp., scarious-margined, 1.9–2.6 mm; stamens 3; fr unilocular, pale brown, prismatically ovoid or long-trigonous, 2.1–2.8 mm, obtuse or subacute. Swamps and shallow water; n. Ind. to Kans., s. to Miss. and Tex. (J. robustus, a preoccupied name)
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.3 - 1.0
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Environment

Light 4-9
Soil humidity 5-7
Soil texture 1-2
Soil acidity 1-5
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-10

Usage

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Cultivation

Can be grown by divisions or seedlings.
Mode divisions seedlings
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Distribution

Juncus nodatus world distribution map, present in Canada and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:289227-2
WFO ID wfo-0000776968
COL ID 3QTYR
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Synonyms

Juncus nodatus Juncus robustus Juncus acuminatus var. robustus