plant a globe shape. The leaves form a basal sheath around the flower stem leaves and end with a stiff sharp point. Flowers The flower stems are to in diameter and to long and are similar to the leaves. They emerge from the base at all angles and each have 1 - 6 flowers. Each flower has 6 stamens and to long bracts that terminate in a stiff and sharp point. The flowers are hermaphrodite and are pollinated by the wind. Fruits and reproduction Fruits are oval 3-celled brown capsules to . The to long brown seeds have a tail at each end. Roots Short and robust rhizomes. Gallery Distribution Found principally in low-lying damp, low fertility areas like sandy sea shores and dune slacks and coastal flats, occasionally in salt marshes and disturbed saline areas, mine dumps, lowland grassland and grassy woodland, riparian vegetation, freshwater wetland, and saline and subsaline wetlands Palearctic: Northern Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Morocco Western Asia: Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey Caucasus: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia Northern Europe: British Isles Southeastern Europe: Albania, Crete, Greece, Italy, Kosovo, Montenegro, Sardinia, Serbia, Sicily, Malta Southwestern Europe: Azores, Balearic Islands, Corsica, France, Portugal, Spain Nearctic: Northern America: Baja California Community species In Brazil, J. acutus has been observed on the Santa Catarina coast living in communities with: Ipomoea pes-caprae Hydrocotyle bonariensis Senecio crassiflorus In a natural shallow depression in the Murray River floodplain in South Australia: Muehlenbeckia florulenta Atriplex semibaccata Halosarcia pergranulata ssp. pergranulata Mimulus repens Ludwigia peploides ssp. montevidensis Phragmites australis Paspalum vaginatum Chemistry The dimeric phenanthrenoid 8,8'-bidehydrojuncusol and the monomeric juncusol and dehydrojuncusol can be isolated from J. acutus. References External links acutus Halophytes Palearctic flora Flora of South America Flora of North America Flora of Baja California Flora of Brazil Flora of Europe Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus