Juncus duranii

Duran's rush

Family: Juncaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 4.3

Duran's rush is a California native perennial found in the San Gabriel, San Bernardno, and San Jacinto Mountains in montane conifer forest creek banks and wet places at elevations of 1,800 to 2,750 meters. Flowering from June to August (inferred), this delicate rush produces brown flowers in small clusters with stiff lance-linear perianth parts. Growing as a tufted, cespitose herb with slender, slightly flattened stems 3 to 20 centimeters tall, it forms a vertical underground rhizome. Its cauline leaves feature prominent rounded sheath appendages and cylindric blades that typically extend shorter than the stem, with long, delicate tips. The plant produces small obovoid fruits approximately equal in length to its perianth, with tiny seed capsules just 0.5 millimeters long.

Habitat: Creek banks, wet places, in montane conifer forest

Elevation: 1800-2750 m

Bioregions: SnGb, SnBr, SnJt.

California counties: Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.