| Juncus arcticus subsp. sitchensis Engelm. | |||
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| Family | Juncaceae — APG family: Juncaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Juncus balticus var. haenkei (E. Mey.) Buchenau, Juncus balticus subsp. sitchensis (Engelm.) Hult., Juncus haenkei E. Mey. | ||
| Description | Culms stout, thick, with yellowish-brown, lustrous basal sheaths in rows, from thick, horizontal, dark rootstocks; bract 12-30 cm long; inflorescence contracted, up to 2 cm long, many-flowered; flowers sessile or short-pedicellate; outer perianth leaves linear-lanceolate, brown, with greenish center, narrowly scarious-margined, longer than the inner; filaments about as long as anthers. | ||
| Ecology | Sandy shores, tidal marshes. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.