| Juncus stygius subsp. americanus (Buchenau) Hult. | |||
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| Family | Juncaceae — APG family: Juncaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Juncus stygius var. americanus Buchenau. | ||
| Description | Culms filiform, 1-3-leaved, in small tufts; leaves filiform, the basal shorter than culm; heads 1 (-3), each 1-4-flowered; lowest bract shorter than inflorescence; perianth pale, light brown, striped; sepals acute; petals somewhat obtuse; capsule ovate, light yellowish-brown, longer than perianth; anthers much shorter than fila- ments. | ||
| Ecology | Wet bogs. J. stygius described from Europe, subsp. americanus from America. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | American plant differs from Eurasiatic plant in having larger, more distinctly mucronate capsules. Circumpolar map indicates range of entire species complex. |
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.