• NSF NEON | Open Data to Understand our Ecosystems
  • Biorepository Data Portal

  • Home
  • Search
    • Sample search
    • Map search
    • Dynamic Species List
    • Taxonomic Explorer
  • Images
    • Image Browser
    • Image Search
  • Datasets
    • Research Datasets and Special Collections
    • Checklist: Research Sites - Invertebrates
    • Checklist: Research Sites - Plants
    • Checklist: Research Sites - Vertebrates
  • Sample Use
    • Sample Use Policy
    • Sample Request
    • Sample Archival Request
    • Data Usage Policy
  • Additional Information
    • Tutorials and Help
    • Biorepository Staff
    • About NEON
    • NEON Data Portal
    • ASU Biocollections
    • About Symbiota
  • Getting Started
Login New Account Sitemap
Juncus diffusissimus Buckley  

No occurrences found

Family: Juncaceae
slimpod rush
Images
not available
  • FNA
  • Gleason & Cronquist
  • Resources
Ralph E. Brooks*;Steven E. Clemants*;  in Flora of North America (vol. 22)
Herbs, perennial, cespitose, 2.5--6.5 dm. Culms erect, terete, 1--3 mm diam., smooth. Cataphylls 0--1, maroon or dark green, apex obtuse. Leaves: basal 1, cauline 2--3; auricles 1--2.1 mm, apex rounded, membranaceous; blade maroon or dark green, terete to compressed, 3--20 cm x 1--2.4 mm. Inflorescences terminal panicles of 30--70(--130), 5--20 cm, branches spreading; primary bract erect; ; heads (1--)2--10-flowered, hemispheric or narrower, 5--10 mm diam. Flowers: tepals green to straw-colored, lanceolate, apex acute; outer tepals (2--)2.6--3.2 mm; inner tepals (1.8--)2.3--3 mm; stamens 3, anthers 1/2--2/3 filament length. Capsules exserted, , straw-colored, 1-locular, linear-lanceoloid, 4--5.2 mm, apex acute, valves separating at dehiscence. Seeds oblong-ellipsoid, 0.3--0.4 mm, not tailed; body clear yellow-brown. Fruiting summer. In soft mucky substrates, marshy shores, sloughs, occasionally in wet wooded places, often in shallow water; commonly abundantly colonizing wet, sandy- alluvial outwash in ditches and clearings; 10--1000 m; Ala., Ark., Calif., Conn., Fla., Ga., Ill., Ind., Kans., Ky., La., Md., Miss., Mo., N.C., Ohio, Okla., S.C., Tenn., Tex., Va., Wash., W.Va.; probably introduced, South America.
Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Stems clustered, slender, erect, 2-5 dm, with usually 2-4 terete, septate lvs; infl decompound, very diffusely branched, widely spreading, 1-2 dm, usually constituting a third of the height of the plant, bearing very many obpyramidal, 3-10-fld heads; fls eprophyllate; tep subequal, linear-subulate, 2.3-2.8 mm; stamens 3; fr unilocular, golden-brown, prismatically linear-trigonous or subtriquetrous, 4-6 mm, a fifth as thick, gradually attenuate, very acute, much surpassing the tep. Wet soil and muddy shores; s. Ind. to Mo. and Okla., s. to Ala. and Tex.; coastal plain from se. Va. to S.C.; reported from W.Va.

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

©The New York Botanical Garden. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Click to Display
0 Total Images
NSF NEON | Open Data to Understand our Ecosystems The National Ecological Observatory Network is a major facility fully funded by the National Science Foundation. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.