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sorus of Bauerago vuyckii parasitises live ovary of Luzula campestris
Foodplant / parasite
telium of Puccinia obscura parasitises live Luzula campestris
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I have not seen any authentic specimen of this species from our area.
R.R.Stewart (l.c.) also doubtfully records Luzula pallescens Bess., (=Luzula campestris var. pallescens Whlb.) with reference to Rao, from Kashmir; this is a light-green tufted plant, without stolons, and linear leaves 1.5-3 mm broad; inflorescence umbells, paniculate with few to many floral glomerules, each bearing 6-12 flowers, c. 2 mm long; anthers c. as long as the filaments.
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Luzula campestris may occur rarely elsewhere in Canada and the United States in lawns and cleared places (collected in Massachusetts in the 1920s). A common European species, the name is used in our floras for almost every species of the "multiflora--campestris" complex.
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Description
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Stoloniferous loosely tufted perennial, 15-30 (-60) cm tall, with basal and cauline leaves up to 30 cm long and 6 mm broad. Flowers 3-12 in each cluster, 3-4 mm long, brown; perianth segments lanceolate, subequal, outer finely pointed and exceeding the capsule. Anthers 2-6 times as long as the filaments. Capsules 2.5-3 mm long, obovoid, obtuse, apiculate; seed nearly globose with a basal, whitish appendage.
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Rhizomes conspicuous. Stolons short, slender. Culms not cespitose, decumbent, 10--20 cm. Leaves: basal leaves few, 2.5--15 cm x 4 mm, apex callous, pilose. Inflorescences racemose; glomerules 2--6, central glomerules sessile or all congested, not cylindric; peduncles straight, divergent as much as 90°, to 3 cm; proximal inflorescence bract dark, often purplish, leaflike. Flowers: tepals dark reddish, shining, with wide clear margins and apex, (apex acuminate, midrib extending as awned tip), 3--3.5 mm; outer and inner whorls equal; anthers ca. 2--6 times filament length; stigmas ± equal to style. Capsules brown, shining, (usually lighter than tepals), conspicuously shorter than to nearly equal to tepals; (beak obvious). Seeds reddish, globose, 1--1.3 mm; caruncle to 1/2 seed length. 2n = 12.
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Plants laxly tufted, 9--28(--40) cm tall. Stolons short. Stems terete, 0.8--1.5 mm in diam. Basal leaf blade 3--8 cm × 2--4 mm, margin sparsely ciliate, apex obtuse and with a thick callus. Cauline leaves 1 or 2; leaf blade pilose near juncture with leaf sheath. Inflorescence a cyme, with 3--7 heads; basal bract 1.5--2.5 cm; heads globose to hemispheric, 5--10(--12)-flowered; peduncles unequal. Pedicels very short, with 2 bracts at base; bracteoles broadly ovate, ca. 2 × 1.4 mm. Perianth segments reddish brown to chestnut brown, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 3--4 × 1--1.5 mm, subequal. Filaments 0.4--0.5 mm; anthers 1.8--2.2 mm. Style ca. 1.1 mm, longer than ovary; stigmas ca. 2 mm. Capsule chestnut brown, trigonous globose to trigonous obovoid, 2.5--3 mm. Seeds oblong, 1.1--1.3 mm; appendage basal, 0.4--0.6 mm. Fl. May--Jun, fr. Jun--Jul. 2 n = 12.
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Distribution
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Distribution: Europe, N.Africa, Asia, N.America and New Zealand
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Habitat & Distribution
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Flowering and fruiting summer. Sunny clearingsHabitat??; 500--900 melevation??; introduced; Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.).
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Habitat & Distribution
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Forested slopes. Yunnan [India, Kashmir; SW Asia, Europe, North America].
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Synonym
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Juncus campestris Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. I1: 329. 1753
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Juncus campestris Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 329. 1753; J. subpilosus Gilibert; Luzula subpilosa (Gilibert) V. I. Kreczetowicz.
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Luzula campestris
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Luzula campestris, commonly known as field wood-rush, Good Friday grass or sweep's brush is a flowering plant in the rush family Juncaceae. It is a very common plant throughout temperate Europe extending to the Caucasus. This species of Luzula is found on all types of native grasslands, and cultivated areas such as lawns, golf-course greens and fields.
Description
Luzula campestris is relatively short, between 5 and 15 cm (2 and 6 in) tall. It spreads via short stolons and also via seed produced in one stemless cluster of flowers together with three to six stemmed clusters of flowers.
It flowers between March and June in the northern temperate zone (September to December in the southern hemisphere). The chromosome number is 12, 24 or 36.
The plant can be a persistent weed in ornamental turf.
Distribution
The native range of Luzula campestris is temperate Europe, extending to North Africa in the south and to the Caucasus in the east. The species has a northern limit at about latitude 63 degrees north in Scandinavia.[1] The closely related Luzula multiflora is native in much of North America, and is a distinct species in the Flora of North America.[2] Some botanists treat it as a variety, Luzula campestris var. multiflora.
Luzula campestris has been introduced worldwide outside its native range, into suitable habitats in the southern hemisphere.[3]
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Luzula campestris: Brief Summary
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Luzula campestris, commonly known as field wood-rush, Good Friday grass or sweep's brush is a flowering plant in the rush family Juncaceae. It is a very common plant throughout temperate Europe extending to the Caucasus. This species of Luzula is found on all types of native grasslands, and cultivated areas such as lawns, golf-course greens and fields.
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