| Juncus castaneus Sm. | |||
| |||
| Family | Juncaceae — APG family: Juncaceae | ||
| Description | Culms from short, light-brown, scaly rhizome with stolons; stem stiff, coarse, leafy below; leaves erect, canaliculate; heads 1-3; lower involucral leaf generally extending beyond inflorescence; sepals brownish-black, linear-lanceolate, acute, as long as or longer than the narrow, obtuse petals; capsule shiny, castaneous to purplish-black, mucronate, much longer than perianth. | ||
| Ecology | Common in wet places in tundra and mountains. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Var. pallidus Hook., with pale perianth bracts and capsule and often with few-flowered heads, occurs in scattered localities. |
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.