OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Poales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Juncus acuminatus   FAMILY Juncaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Juncus acuminatus   FAMILY Juncaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Juncus acuminatus

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 040-01-029:

Juncus acuminatus   FAMILY Juncaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Juncus acuminatus

 

COMMON NAME:
Tapertip Rush, Sharp-fruited Rush


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image of Juncus acuminatus, Tapertip Rush, Sharp-fruited Rush

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_juac_001_lvd

        

image of Juncus acuminatus, Tapertip Rush, Sharp-fruited Rush

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide    pnd_juac_006_lvd

        

image of Juncus acuminatus, Tapertip Rush, Sharp-fruited Rush

Terry Holdsclaw    tdh_j_acuminatus_5198

May    Currituck County    NC

Heads hemispheric (to spheric), per Flora of North America.

image of Juncus acuminatus, Tapertip Rush, Sharp-fruited Rush

Terry Holdsclaw    tdh_j_acuminatus_5211

May    Currituck County    NC

Inflorescences are terminal panicles of 5-50 heads, with branches ascending, per Flora of North America.

image of Juncus acuminatus, Tapertip Rush, Sharp-fruited Rush

Terry Holdsclaw    tdh_j_acuminatus_5213

May    Currituck County    NC

image of Juncus acuminatus, Tapertip Rush, Sharp-fruited Rush

Terry Holdsclaw    tdh_j_acuminatus_5213b

May    Currituck County    NC

Flowers: tepals light brown to greenish, lanceolate, apex acuminate, per Flora of North America.

image of Juncus acuminatus, Tapertip Rush, Sharp-fruited Rush

Terry Holdsclaw    tdh_juncus_acuminatus_1

June    Iredell County    NC

Perennial, cespitose, not rhizomatous. Culms erect, terete, smooth, per Flora of North America.

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Juncus acuminatus   FAMILY Juncaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Juncus acuminatus   FAMILY Juncaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Juncus acuminatus

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 040-01-029:
Juncus acuminatus   FAMILY Juncaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Juncus acuminatus

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

2254

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial

Habitat: In a range of natural and disturbed, saturated and seasonally flooded wetlands, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal (1-2) & alternate (1-2)

FLOWER:
Summer
Greenish /Straw-colored
Radially symmetrical
6 tepals in two whorls of 3
3 stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual

Inflorescence appears terminal, its bract not resembling a continuation of culm

FRUIT:
Summer
Green/Straw
Capsule

 

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