Plants of USA and Canada

Scientific or common name:

Luzula spicata (L.) DC.


JUNCACEAE Family selection - Rush family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Luzula spicata (L.) DC. Taxon selection
Nomencl. ref.: in de Lamarck & de Candolle, Fl. Franç., ed. 3, 3: 161 (1805)
Rank: species

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Common names

US name U.S. name: Spiked woodrush
en English name: spiked wood-rush
Italian name: Erba lucciola pendula

Grown habit: Graminoid
Duration: Perennial
 

Synonyms:
= Juncoides spicatum (L.) Kuntze
= Luzula spicata (L.) DC. ssp. saximontana A. Löve & D. Löve, nom. inq.


Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Luzula spicata (L.) DC. ssp. saximontana A. Löve & D. Löve, nom. inq.



TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Subclass: Commelinidae
Order: Juncales
Family: Juncaceae
Genus: Luzula
Species:


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Luzula spicata
Luzula spicata
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Luzula spicata
Luzula spicata
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Luzula spicata
Luzula spicata
Walter Hood Fitch - Illustrations of the British Flora (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Luzula spicata
Luzula spicata
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Luzula spicata
Luzula spicata
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 1: 484.

Luzula spicata
Luzula spicata
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Luzula spicata
Luzula spicata
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Luzula spicata
Luzula spicata
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Luzula spicata
Hippolyte Coste - Flore descriptive et illustrée de la France, de la Corse et des contrées limitrophes, 1901-1906 - This image is in public domain because its copyright has expired.

Luzula spicata
Luzula spicata
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Luzula spicata
Luzula spicata
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Luzula spicata
Luzula spicata
Robert H. Mohlenbrock USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. 1992. Western wetland flora: Field office guide to plant species. West Region, Sacramento. - Not copyrighted image


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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, AZ, CA, CO, ID, ME, MT, NH, NM, NV, NY, OR, UT, VT, WA, WY), CAN (AB, BC, LB, MB, NF, NS, NT, NU, QC, YT), DEN (GL), FRA (SPM)

Distributional map for Luzula spicata (L.) DC.
Map for Luzula spicata (L.) DC.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA



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