''Juncus saximontanus'' is a species of rush known by the common name Rocky Mountain rush. It is native to much of western North America from

Alaska Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S ...

to central Mexico, where it grows in wet habitat, often in mountainous areas, such as

bog A bog or bogland is a wetland that accumulates peat as a deposit of dead plant materials often mosses, typically sphagnum moss. It is one of the four main types of wetlands. Other names for bogs include mire, mosses, quagmire, and muskeg; a ...

s and moist meadows. This is a

rhizomatous In botany and dendrology, a rhizome (; , ) is a modified subterranean plant stem that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. Rhizomes are also called creeping rootstalks or just rootstalks. Rhizomes develop from axillary buds and grow h ...

perennial herb producing a clump of stems up to about 60 centimeters tall. The

inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed ...

is made up of several oval or spherical heads containing up to 25 flowers each. The flower has narrow, pointed brown segments not more than about 3 millimeters long. This rush is sometimes treated as a variety of '' Juncus ensifolius''.Flora of North America
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Jepson Manual Treatment — ''Juncus saximontanus''''Juncus saximontanus'' — U.C. Photo gallery
saximontanus Flora of the Western United States Flora of Western Canada Flora of Alaska Flora of California Flora of Northwestern Mexico Flora of Central Mexico Flora of the Rocky Mountains Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States) Natural history of the Transverse Ranges Plants described in 1902 Flora without expected TNC conservation status {{Poales-stub