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Juncus

Juncus
Family: Juncaceae
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Ralph E. Brooks*;Steven E. Clemants*;  in Flora of North America (vol. 22)
Herbs, perennial or rarely annual, rhizomatous or cespitose. Culms round or flattened in cross section. Cataphylls often present at culm base. Leaves: sheaths open; blade flat, channeled, ensiform or terete, sometimes septate, margins involute. Inflorescences terminal or pseudoaxillary, monochasia or dichasia, usually with monochasial branches, cymes or 1--many heads in racemes or panicles; bracteoles 2 or absent. Flowers: tepals (4--)6 in 2 whorls; stamens (2--)3--6. Capsules 1-locular or 3-locular, septicidal. Seeds many, ellipsoid to ovoid, sometimes tailed.
Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Tep narrow, lance-subulate to lance-ovate, dry, often firm and even sharp; stamens 6 or 3, opposite the sep when only 3; ovary and fr trilocular, subtrilocular (with incomplete partitions) or unilocular; seeds several to usually numerous (in any case more than 3), commonly ellipsoid or fusiform and minutely apiculate, sometimes with each end prolonged into a slender tail that may be longer than the body; smooth (1 of our spp. scabrous) herbs with usually simple stems and a few flat or terete, basal or cauline lvs, sometimes with bladeless sheaths only, and with a terminal, compact to loosely branched cyme of few-many fls, these solitary, paired, or often in glomerules; lf-sheaths open. 200, cosmop.

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

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Species within checklist: Maine Monocots
Juncus acuminatus
Media resource of Juncus acuminatus
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Juncus alpinoarticulatus
Media resource of Juncus alpinoarticulatus
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Juncus alpinus
Media resource of Juncus alpinus
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Juncus ambiguus
Media resource of Juncus ambiguus
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Juncus anthelatus
Media resource of Juncus anthelatus
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Juncus arcticus
Media resource of Juncus arcticus
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Juncus aristulatus
Media resource of Juncus aristulatus
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Juncus articulatus
Media resource of Juncus articulatus
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Juncus balticus
Media resource of Juncus balticus
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Juncus brachycephalus
Media resource of Juncus brachycephalus
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Juncus brachyphyllus
Media resource of Juncus brachyphyllus
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Juncus brevicaudatus
Media resource of Juncus brevicaudatus
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Juncus bufonius
Media resource of Juncus bufonius
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Juncus bulbosus
Media resource of Juncus bulbosus
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Juncus canadensis
Media resource of Juncus canadensis
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Juncus compressus
Media resource of Juncus compressus
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Juncus conglomeratus
Media resource of Juncus conglomeratus
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Juncus dichotomus
Media resource of Juncus dichotomus
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Juncus dudleyi
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Juncus effusus
Media resource of Juncus effusus
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Juncus filiformis
Media resource of Juncus filiformis
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Juncus gerardii
Media resource of Juncus gerardii
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Juncus greenei
Media resource of Juncus greenei
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Juncus lesueurii
Media resource of Juncus lesueurii
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Juncus marginatus
Media resource of Juncus marginatus
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Juncus militaris
Media resource of Juncus militaris
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Juncus nodosus
Media resource of Juncus nodosus
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Juncus oronensis
Media resource of Juncus oronensis
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Juncus pelocarpus
Media resource of Juncus pelocarpus
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Juncus pylaei
Media resource of Juncus pylaei
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Juncus richardsonianus
Media resource of Juncus richardsonianus
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Juncus secundus
Media resource of Juncus secundus
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Juncus stygius
Media resource of Juncus stygius
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Juncus subcaudatus
Media resource of Juncus subcaudatus
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Juncus subtilis
Media resource of Juncus subtilis
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Juncus tenuis
Media resource of Juncus tenuis
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Juncus torreyi
Media resource of Juncus torreyi
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Juncus trifidus
Media resource of Juncus trifidus
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Juncus vaseyi
Media resource of Juncus vaseyi
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Juncus x oronensis
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