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|accepted_name=Juncus elliottii
|accepted_authority=Chapman
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. South. U.S.
|place=494. 1860
|year=1860
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Juncaceae;Juncus;Juncus subg. Septati;Juncus elliottii
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Juncaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Juncus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Juncus subg. Septati]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Juncus elliottii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, cespitose, 3–9 dm. <b>Roots</b> often with terminal tubers. <b>Culms</b> erect, terete, 1–3 mm diam., smooth. <b>Cataphylls</b> 1, maroon to brown, apex acute. <b>Leaves</b>: basal 1–3, cauline 1–2; auricles 0.5–2 mm, apex rounded, scarious; blade green or maroon, compressed, 2–16 cm × 1–2 mm. , with faint ringlike bands at position of septa. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal panicles of 40–100(–200) heads, 4–16 cm, branches ascending to spreading; primary bract erect to ascending; heads 2–10-flowered, hemispheric to obpyramidal, 0.3–0.5 mm diam. <b>Flowers</b>: tepals straw-colored, lanceolate, apex acuminate; outer tepals (2.2–)2.6–2.9 mm; inner tepals (1.8–)2.4–2.8; stamens 3, anthers 2/3 to equal filament length. <b>Capsules</b> exserted, chestnut brown, 1-locular, narrowly obpyriform to narrowly ovoid, 2.4–2.9 mm, apex acute, valves separating at dehiscence. <b>Seeds</b> ellipsoid, 0.3–0.5 mm, not tailed; body clearly yellow-brown. <b>2n</b> = 40.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Wet sands, peaty sands, or peat, exposed shores of ponds and lakes, depressions in savannas and flatwoods, moist to wet, much disturbed clearings, roadsides and ditches
|elevation=0–700 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.J.;N.C.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|discussion=<p><i>Juncus elliottii</i> has tubers at the ends of the roots.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Juncus elliottii
|author=
|authority=Chapman
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Juncaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Wet sands, peaty sands, or peat, exposed shores of ponds and lakes, depressions in savannas and flatwoods, moist to wet, much disturbed clearings, roadsides and ditches
|elevation=0–700 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.J.;N.C.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. South. U.S.
|publication year=1860
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V22/V22_214.xml
|genus=Juncus
|subgenus=Juncus subg. Septati
|species=Juncus elliottii
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