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Juncus inflexus (European meadow rush)

Synonyms: Juncus cyprius; Juncus deangelisii; Juncus pallidus; Juncus paniculatus; Juncus warakensis

Infraspecies

Juncus inflexus brachytepalus
Juncus inflexus f. inflexus
Juncus inflexus f. macrocarpus
Juncus inflexus inflexus

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-High
Flower Type [3]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [3]  The plant is reported to be toxic to mammals; It causes irritation of the stomach and diarrhoea, followed by nervousness and progressive blindness; the animal may die of cerebral haemorrhage, preceded by convulsions;
Leaf Type [2]  Evergreen
Lifespan [3]  Perennial
Pollinators [3]  Wind
Structure [2]  Grass
Usage [3]  The stems are used in basket making, thatching, weaving mats etc;
Height [4]  35 inches (.9 m)
Light Preference [5]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [5]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [5]  Intermediate
Soil Moisture [5]  Damp
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Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Stegocintractia junci[6]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 4PLANTATT - Attributes of British and Irish Plants: Status, Size, Life History, Geography and Habitats, M. O. Hill, C. D. Preston & D. B. Roy, Biological Records Centre, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (2004)
♦ 5ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 7Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 8HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0