Dagger-leaf Rush, Dagger-leaved Rush, Swordleaf Rush, Sword-leaf Rush, Three-stamened Rush
Juncus ensifolius
Synonyms: Juncus ensifolius var. ensifolius, Juncus saximontanus var. saximontanus, Juncus tracyi, Juncus xiphioides, Juncus xiphioides var. triandrus
What may be sickle-leaved rush (?) growing in a wet area amongst the dunes on Bayocean Spit, Tillamook County.......June 13, 2010. If this isn't sickle-leaved rush, then it would most likely be daggerleaf rush (Juncus ensifolius)
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Close-ups of the inflorescence of sickle-leaf rush as seen in the roadside ditch near the trailhead for the trail that runs along the saltmarsh side of Bayocean Spit, Tillamook County, OR........June 19, 2010.
Photographed at the eastern edge of Swampy
Meadows at the southwest corner of Mt. Adams just northwest of the intersections
of Rds # 23 & # 8810........August 8, 2004.
The photo above shows a close-up of the inflorescence
of dagger-leaf rush as seen at Swampy Meadows.........August
6, 2005.
Photographed at the eastern edge of Swampy
Meadows at the southwest corner of Mt. Adams just northwest of the intersections
of Rds # 23 & # 8810.........August 8, 2004.
The photo above shows a close-up of the attractive (almost iris-like)
leaves of dagger-leaf rush as seen at Swampy Meadows.........August
6, 2005.
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The 3 photos directly above show close-ups of several inflorescences of dagger-leaf rush as seen at Willard Springs in Conboy Lake NWR.......July 31, 2008.
The photo above shows a large meadow devoted almost exclusively to dagger-leaf rush. From the hillside above the eastern branch of Shorthorn Creek, above the Round the Mt. Trail #9 in the Mt. Adams Wilderness........September 5, 2008.
Paul Slichter
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