Scientific name: Juncus maritimus Lam.
Common name: Sea Rush
Description
Habit: Annuals to perennials. Often more or less aquatic. Up to 1m high, densely tufted, stiff and wiry, ending in a sharp point.
Leaves: Leaves various, grass-like to rush-like, glabrous, with a basal rosette of many leaves and rarely one cauline leaf or leafless sheath, linear and entire, similar to the stems.
Flowers: Flowers hermaphrodite, regular, in often crowded cymes that are terminal but often appear lateral; perianth inconspicuous, membranous, whitish or brownish, consisting of 6 free segments in two whorls of 3; ovary 1-3-celled, with many ovules, style 0 or 1, stigmas 3, linear; stamens 6, rarely 3, c. 2/3 as long as perianth, anthers about twice as long as filaments.
Fruits: A capsule with 3 or numerous seeds, 2.5-3.5mm, three-angled to ovoid, obtuse or subacute, tipped with a short, sharp abrupt point, equalling or slightly exceeding the perianth; seeds 0.8-1.2mm.
Habitat: Salt-marshes and sandy shores.
Distribution: Vey frequent.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No