| Juncus falcatus subsp. sitchensis (Buchenau) Hult. | |||
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| Family | Juncaceae — APG family: Juncaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Juncus falcatus var. sitchensis Buchenau. | ||
| Description | Culms up to 25 cm tall, from long, light-brown, scaly runners; leaf blades flat, stiff, thickish, about as long as stem; heads mostly single, compact, hemispherical; lowest bract lanceolate, extending slightly beyond head; outer perianth segments acute, the inner obtuse, all of about same length, dark brown with lighter center; anthers 6, about as long as filaments; capsule oblong to obovate, emarginate, about as long as perianth. | ||
| Ecology | Moist, sandy places, near shores. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | J. falcatus is a complicated complex occurring also in Japan (var. préminens Buchenau) and in Australia and Tasmania. |
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.