Juncus militaris Bigelow

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Juncaceae

• Scientific Name

  Juncus militaris Bigelow

• Description

  Species Description - Stems stout, erect from a rhizome, (3–)5–10 dm, with a few (or no) bladeless sheaths near the base and a single (seldom two) long foliage lf near the middle, its stout stiff blade overtopping the infl; rhizome, when submersed, often producing many long capillary lvs; infl obpyramidal, 4–15 cm, freely branched (the branches ascending), the obpyramidal to subhemispheric glomerules 5–13(–25)-fld; fls eprophyllate; tep lance-subulate to lanceolate, subequal, 2.3–3.5(–4) mm, the sep often aristulate; stamens 6; fr unilocular, trigonously ovoid-prismatic, 2.4–3.3 mm, acuminate into a conspicuous beak. Shallow water and wet shores; N.S. to Del.; inland in n. N.Y., s. Ont., and n. Mich.

• Discussion

  J. subnodulosus Schrank, a European species, was collected as a waif in Mass. many years ago and described as J. pervetus Fernald. It has obtuse tep and widely spreading primary branches of the infl.