''Luzula forsteri'', commonly known as southern wood-rush,
is a species of
perennial plant
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in
Juncaceae
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family that is native to
Europe
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,
north Africa
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and
western Asia
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. There is a record of it having been collected at Salem, Oregon in 1910.
The species was named for
Edward Forster the Younger (1765–1849).
[James Edward Smith. Flora Britannica. 1804. vol. 3: p. 1359]
References
forsteri
Flora of Europe
Flora of North Africa
Flora of Western Asia
Plants described in 1804
Taxa named by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle
Taxa named by James Edward Smith
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