Juncus microcephalus
Kunth
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Roots, Tubers, Vegetable
The roots, tubers, and young plants are eaten as vegetables.
Where to Find It
It is a warm temperate plant. It is often in wet soils. In Argentina it grows from sea level to 3,000 m above sea level.
Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Central America, Chile, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, North America, Paraguay, South America*, Tasmania, Uruguay, USA,
Countries: Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Australia, Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Grenada, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Haiti, Jamaica, St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Paraguay, Suriname, El Salvador, Trinidad & Tobago, United States, Uruguay, St Vincent, Venezuela
How to Identify
A herb. It forms colonies. It keeps growing from year to year. It can grow 2 m tall. The capsules bear hundreds of small seeds.
How to Grow
Plants are grown from seeds. They need light to germinate.
References (4)
- Piepenbring, M., 2000, Edible tubers formed by roots of Juncus microcephalus Kunth in H. B. K. Journal of Botanical Taxonomy and Geobotany. Feddes repertorium 111, 7-8, 567-570
- Tasmanian Herbarium Vascular Plants list p 66
- Wiersema, J. H. & Leon, B., 2013, World Economic Plants. A Standard Reference CRC Press. 2nd Ed. p 376
- World Checklist of Useful Plant Species 2020. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
