Luzula campestris (L.) DC.
EOL Text
The following is a representative barcode sequence, the centroid of all available sequences for this species.
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 11
Specimens with Barcodes: 14
Species With Barcodes: 1
Canada
Rounded National Status Rank: NNA - Not Applicable
United States
Rounded National Status Rank: NNA - Not Applicable
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Rounded Global Status Rank: G5 - Secure
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Canada
Origin: Unknown/Undetermined
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
United States
Origin: Exotic
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
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Luzula campestris is a rush commonly known as field wood-rush, Good Friday grass or sweep's brush.
It is a very common plant throughout temperate Europe and Asia. This species of Luzula is found on all types of native grasslands, and cultivated areas such as lawns, golf-course greens, and fields.
Description[edit]
Luzula campestris is relatively short, between 5 cm and 15 cm 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.
Luzula campestris
The plant can be a persistent weed in ornamental turf.
- Related
The closely related Luzula multiflora is native in much of North America, and is a distinct species in the Flora of North America.[1] Some botanists treat it as a variety, Luzula campestris var. multiflora.
Other species similar to Luzula campestris are found in Malaysia and New Zealand.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Luzula multiflora in Flora of North America @ efloras.org . accessed 7.22.2012
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Canada
Origin: Exotic
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Present
Confidence: Confident
United States
Origin: Exotic
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
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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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Chile Central
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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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