Juncus tenuis var. williamsii Fern.
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Plants perennial, tufted. Stems 10--40 cm ( 0.6--1.2 mm, rigid to weak. Leaves basal; leaf sheath auricles obtuse, 2--4 mm, margin scarious to broadly so; leaf blade flat, 4--23 cm ( 0.5--1.8 mm, margin often involute. Inflorescences terminal panicles, 3--7 cm, usually lax, 6--40-flowered, rarely flowers in a few clusters; involucral bracts 2, leaflike, 4--18 cm. Bracteoles 2. Perianth segments greenish, lanceolate, 3.5--4 ( ca. 1 mm, subequal or outer ones somewhat longer than inner, margin white scarious, apex long tapered to a sharp point. Stamens 6; filaments ca. 1.2 mm; anthers ca. 0.8 mm. Style shorter than ovary; stigmas ca. 1.6 mm. Capsule trigonous ovoid, shorter than to rarely equaling perianth, apex truncate and shortly mucronate to obtuse. Seeds reddish brown, 0.4--0.5 mm, appendaged; appendage white, short. Fl. Jun--Jul, fr. Aug--Sep. 2 n = 30, 32, 84.
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Juncus tenuis occurs throughout North America. It is particularly abundant in northeastern United States and eastern Canada, although infrequent in the south and west.
Through the use of isozyme electrophoresis, hybridization can be demonstrated between various members of the Juncus tenuis complex, including Juncus tenuis, J. anthelatus, J. interior, J. secundus, and J. dichotomus (R. E. Brooks, unpubl.). Juncus ××oronensis is thought to be a hybrid between J. tenuis and J. vaseyi in the northeast.
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Herbs, perennial, tufted, 1.5--5 dm. Rhizomes densely branching. Culms few--20. Leaves basal, (1--)2--3; auricles 2--5 mm, apex acute, membranous; blade flat, 3--12 cm x 0.5--1 mm, margins entire. Inflorescences 5--40-flowered, borne congested or branch internodes ca. as long as tepals, ssomewhat loose, 1--5 cm; primary bract usually longer than inflorescence. Flowers: bracteoles 2; tepals greenish, lanceolate, 3.3--4.4 mm; outer and inner series nearly equal; stamens 6, filaments 0.5--0.9 mm, anthers 0.1--0.2 mm; style 0.1--0.2 mm. Capsules tan or light brown, 1-locular to pseudo-3-locular, ellipsoid, (3.3--)3.8--4.7 x (1.1--)1.3--1.7 mm, nearly equal to tepals. Seeds tan, ellipsoid to lunate, (0.52--)5.5--0.65(--0.7) mm, not tailed. 2n = 80.
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Juncus leptocladus Hayata; J. macer Gray.
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Juncus bicornis Michaux; J. bicornis var. williamsii (Fernald) Victorin; J. macer Gray; J. macer forma williamsii (Fernald) F. J. Hermann; J. macer var. williamsii (Fernald) Fernald; J. tenuis var. bicornis (Michaux) E. Meyer; J. tenuis var. multicornis E. Meyer; J. tenuis var. williamsii Fernald
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Path Rush occurs in every county of Illinois and it is very common (see Distribution Map). Habitats include open woodlands, gravelly seeps, foot paths with compacted soil (where it is especially common), pastures and abandoned fields, gravelly margins of roadways, and barren waste areas. This weedy species prefers disturbed habitats. It has spread from North America to other continents, including Eurasia and Australia. Faunal Associations
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Riversides, streamsides, wet grasslands; ca. 400 m.
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Flowering spring--early summer. Exposed or shaded sites in soils ranging from sandy to clayey under moist or drier conditions, oftentimes these sites naturally or otherwise disturbed (e.g., game or human trails); Alta., B.C., Man., N.B., N.S., Ont., P.E.I., Que., Sask.; Ala., Alaska, Ariz., Ark., Calif., Colo., Conn., Del., D.C., Fla., Ga., Idaho, Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kans., Ky., La., Maine, Md., Mass., Mich., Minn., Miss., Mo., Mont., Nebr., Nev., N.H., N.J., N.Mex., N.Y., N.C., N.Dak., Ohio, Okla., Oreg., Pa., R.I., S.C., S.Dak., Tenn., Tex., Utah, Vt., Va., Wash., W.Va., Wis., Wyo.; introduced worldwide.
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Foodplant / saprobe
apothecium of Belonopsis junciseda is saprobic on dead Juncus tenuis
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The following is a representative barcode sequence, the centroid of all available sequences for this species.