| Juncus triglumis L. | |||
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| Family | Juncaceae — APG family: Juncaceae | ||
| Description | Caespitose, with short rootstock; culm straight, stiff, up to 15 cm tall, with basal filiform leaves and reddish-brown sheaths; leaves shorter than culm; head single, with 3-5 flowers on same level, subtended by 2-3 dark, spathiform bracts, mostly shorter than head; perianth segment ovate-lanceolate, dark reddish-brown in age, shorter than the mature, apiculate, blackish-brown capsule. | ||
| Ecology | Moist places in open ground, heaths. Described from the “Alps of Lapland.” |
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.