| Juncus nodosus L. | |||
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| Family | Juncaceae — APG family: Juncaceae | ||
| Description | Stems 1-4 dm tall, from slender, creeping, tuber-bearing rhizome, mostly with 2-3 slender leaves, the uppermost often exceeding inflorescence; heads spherical, reddish-brown, exceeded by involucral leaf, in open inflorescence; capsule about as long as the lance-acuminate perianth leaves; anthers 6, shorter than filaments; style extremely short. | ||
| Ecology | Swamps, hot springs. Described from North America. |
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.