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Blunt-flowered Rush - Juncus subnodulosus
It has far creeping rhizomes that produce extensive patches, with erect, soft bright green smooth stems. Each stem has 1 or 2 long leaves which are round and hollow with both longitudinal and cross partitions. Inflorescence stiff, forming an open, rounded, repeatedly branched head of many long stalked forking flower clusters, pale brown in colour, often looking whitish; incurved, blunt outer tepals.
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Wet meadows and marshy places.
July and August.
Perennial.
Occasional and local in England and Wales becoming very scarce in parts of Scotland.
Uncommon in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 19 of the 617 tetrads.
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Species profile
- Common names
- Blunt-flowered Rush
- Species group:
- Grasses, Rushes & Sedges
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Poales
- Family:
- Juncaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 11
- First record:
- 11/08/2008 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 20/07/2021 (Bell, Melinda)
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