Juncus repens

Michaux

Flora Boreali-Americana 1: 191. 1803.

Common names: Creeping rush
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 22.

Herbs, perennial, cespitose, floriferous culm 0.5–3 dm. Culms first ascending, soon arcuate-stoloniferous and creeping or floating, or growing submersed along bottom, each node with cluster of basal leaves and fibrous roots, eventually each emergent terrestrial node with floriferous culm. Leaves basal; auricles 0.5–1 mm, apex acutish, membranous or thicker; blade spreading, flat, 2–10(–15) cm × 1–3 mm. Inflorescences glomerules, (1–)2–10, each with 3–12 flowers, open; primary bract usually shorter than inflorescence. Flowers: tepals green, margins scarious; inner series narrowly lanceolate, 5–9 mm, apex usually recurved; outer series obviously shorter, apex usually erect; stamens 3, filaments 1.5–3 mm, anthers 0.5–0.8 mm; style 0.5 mm. Capsules tan, 3-locular, narrowly ellipsoid, 3.5–5.5 × 0.8–1.2 mm. Seeds brown, ovoid, 0.3–0.4 mm, not tailed.


Phenology: Flowering and fruiting summer–fall.
Habitat: Shores of ponds, lakes, and borrow pits, flatwood depressions, ditches, and drainage canals

Distribution

V22 519-distribution-map.jpg

Ala., Ark., Del., Fla., Ga., La., Md., Miss., N.C., Okla., S.C., Tenn., Tex., Va., Mexico (Tabasco), West Indies (Cuba).

Discussion

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
... more about "Juncus repens"
Ralph E. Brooks* +  and Steven E. Clemants* +
Michaux +
Creeping rush +
Ala. +, Ark. +, Del. +, Fla. +, Ga. +, La. +, Md. +, Miss. +, N.C. +, Okla. +, S.C. +, Tenn. +, Tex. +, Va. +, Mexico (Tabasco) +  and West Indies (Cuba). +
Shores of ponds, lakes, and borrow pits, flatwood depressions, ditches, and drainage canals +
Flowering and fruiting summer–fall. +
Flora Boreali-Americana +
Juncus sect. Graminifolii +
Juncus repens +
Juncus subg. Graminifolii +
species +