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Luzula arcuata
Also called Curved Wood Rush, Arctic Woodrush
Luzula arcuata is a species of flowering plant in the rush family Juncaceae with the modern common name curved wood-rush (formerly curved mountain hair-rush). The plant is native to mountains of northern Europe, north-western and north-eastern Asia and north-western North America.
It has a very local distribution, confined to open ground and mountain summit plateaux above 1,250 metres (4,100 ft) that are sufficiently exposed to be kept snow-free. Its native distribution includes Iceland, Svalbard, northern Norway and Scottish mountains and mountains of Western North America and the Kamchatka peninsula.
Hairy woodrush · Alpine woodrush · Field woodrush · Luzula canariensis · Pacific woodrush · Northern woodrush · Luzula crinita · Forked woodrush · Sourthern woodrush · Hawai'i woodrush · Hitchcock's Smooth Woodrush · Luzula longiflora
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Luzula arcuata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
