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10-09-2008, 07:32 PM
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| | | Rush / Sedge from next to Pond.ID Needed
I found this rush/sedge next to my local pond. Is it woodrush? |
10-09-2008, 07:34 PM
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| | | Re: Rush / Sedge from next to Pond.ID Needed
Possibly Juncus articulatus 
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10-09-2008, 07:45 PM
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| | | Re: Rush / Sedge from next to Pond.ID Needed
My first thought would be Sharp-flowered Rush (Juncus acutiflorus) but it is very much a tentative ID I can't quite make out enough details to be anywhere near certain. I'm also struggling a little with the scale on this one and a few clues about size and habitat (ie acid soils or more neutral?) would be helpful.
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10-09-2008, 07:49 PM
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details:
very clay-y soil. next to a pond on an embankment. I will go back tomorrow and photo the flower if its easier. if you want.  |
10-09-2008, 08:22 PM
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it is either sharp-flowered or jointed rush but I would lean in favour of the former (oooh don't I sound posh )
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10-09-2008, 08:26 PM
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The Sharp-flowered is difficult to separate from the Jointed Rush. It has similar leaves, but the tepals are never as dark as in Jointed Rush, where they are almost blackish-brown, and the main branches are often almost horizontal (i.e. at right-angles to the stem)
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10-09-2008, 08:59 PM
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| | | Re: Rush / Sedge from next to Pond.ID Needed
I'll go for Jointed Rush, Juncus articulatus, but I'm not sure! |
11-09-2008, 10:13 AM
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| | | Re: Rush / Sedge from next to Pond.ID Needed
Here are two quite different rushes which I picked on Tuesday in Glen Quoich, to work on their IDs. 
On the left is a paler flower with less angular joints, which I think is Jointed Rush judging by Collins Guide. On the right is a dark brown flowered and very angular specimen which looks like Sharp-flowered Rush.
They were both growing in a rough meadow drainage ditch beside pine forest, probably fairly acid soil l large quantities of each so I felt ok to take specimens.
The original specimen for this thread looks like Jointed Rush to me.
Sorry my photos are poor - not much light in Scotland these days !
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11-09-2008, 10:15 AM
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| | | Re: Rush / Sedge from next to Pond.ID Needed
Sorry, the second photo was supposed to be this one 
Jointed on the left, Sharp-flowered on the right
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18-09-2008, 06:32 PM
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I went back and got the closeups of the flowers you wanted.  | | | |
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