Family Juncaceae
Juncus gerardii Loisel.
black-grass, salt-meadow rush
Juncus: the classical Latin name for the rush, possibly from jungere, "to join or bind," because the stems were used for binding
gerardii: for Louis Gerard, French botanist from late 1700's to early 1800's who was the first to describe this species technically
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