Juncus effusus
Soft Rush
Clump forming wetland plant. Upright, fanning, deep green, rounded stems.
Inconspicuous golden flowers in the summer. Provides food and shelter for
birds and other wildlife.
Genus Juncus
Herbs, perennial or rarely annual , rhizomatous or cespitose. Culms round or flattened in cross section . Cataphylls often present at culm base.
Juncus 'Carman's Japan' (Carman's Sacred Japanese Rush) - This evergreen clump-forming rush grows 18-24 inches tall, with bright green,thin, narrow stems of a fine texture and an overall graceful form.
Juncus effusus 'Unicorn' - Unicorn Soft Rush
Juncaceae
Juncus effusus 'Unicorn' or Unicorn Soft Rush is a fairly new evergreen, perennial, hybrid rush developed by the University of British Columbia Botanical Gardens.
Juncus effusus L.
Common Names
bog rush, common rush, Japanese mat rush, lamp rush, rush, soft rush ...
#940 Juncus effusus
Common Names: soft rush, common rush
Family: Juncaceae (common rush Family)
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Juncus effusus
Native to Florida
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Juncus is a perennial comes in a wide variety of leaf shapes and can also be used for edgings, borders and as accent plants.
Juncus Spiralis is an evergreen perennial which forms a clump of spiraling, corkscrew-like stems. It will occasionally form small clusters of brown flowers in the summer.
Juncus effusus
to 1 metre, sun or shade, wet soil, Zone 4
*J. e. 'Lemon Twist'
60 centimetres, sun to part shade, wet soil, Zone 5 ...
Juncus effusus 'Spiralis'
1-2 ft.
The Corkscrew Rush is a slow growing rush known for its wild, corkscrewing foliage. It is easily grown in wet soils, including up to four inches of standing water ...
Juncus inflexus (anthela)
A raceme in which the single flowers are replaced by cymes is called a (indefinite) thyrse. The secondary cymes can of course be of any of the different types of dichasia and monochasia.
Juncus, where numerous lateral axes arising from the primary axis grow very strongly and develop in an irregular manner.
Juncus ( Strelitzia juncea )
June Bride Caladium ( Caladium bicolor )
June Bride Coral Flower ( Heuchera brizoides ) ...
Rush (Juncus) - Water-side or marsh plants, generally with long round leaves. J. effusus spiralis is a very singular plant, whose spreading tufts of leaves, instead of growing straight, are twisted in a cork-screw form.
7[list]/430: Juncus (300: paraphyletic), Luzula (115). Worldwide, esp. Andes (3 endemic genera), S. South America-New Zealand (2 genera) (map: Vester 1940; Hultn 1961; Balsev 1996, still incomplete).
Junco de esteras - Juncus effusus
Junco fino - Juncus effusus
Junquerina - Chondrilla juncea
Junquillo de bosque - Narcissus pseudo-narcissus
Junquillo oloroso - Narcissus jonquilla
Jusbarda - Ruscus aculeatus
Jusquian - Hyoscyamus niger ...
broad-leaf rush Juncus planifolius
broad-leaved carpetgrass Axonopus compressus
broad-leaved cordia Cordia glabra
brome fescue Vulpia bromoides
broom-corn; shattercane; sorghum Sorghum bicolor
broomsedge bluestem Andropogon virginicus ...
Herbs: sedges (Carex spp.), bulrushes (Scirpus spp.), rushes (Juncus spp.), foxtail barley (Critestion jubatum), reed canarygrass (Phalaris arundinaceae), oakleaf goosefoot (Chenopodium glaucum), curled dock (Rumex crispus), ...
Among them are the common or bog rush (Juncus effusus), widely distributed in swamps and moist places of the Northern Hemisphere, and the slender rush (J. tenuis), found in drier surroundings.
Only two genera are important to ornamental horticulture, Juncus, the rushes, and Luzula, the woodrushes. Both are perennial herbs. Rushes prefer wet sunny habitats and tend to be summer-flowering.
I picked up a dwarf form in England under the name Juncus effusus 'Curley Wurley', which is about half the size of the normal corkscrew rush.
Australian silver rush (Juncus polyanthemos) is paired with velvety foliage of Plectranthus 'Heigh-Ho Silver' in a square zinc container.
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The botanical species name schoenoprasum means essentially rush-like leek: Greek schoinos [σχο-νος] rush (a kind of grass, genus Juncus ) and prason [πράσον] leek. The reference is, obviously, to the leaves' shape. Cf.
Corkscrew rush (Juncus effusus ‘Spiralis')
Water mint (Mentha aquatica)
Bog bean (Menyanthes trifoliata)
Lavender musk (Mimulus ringens)
Water forget-me-not (Myosotis scorpioides)
Flamingo plant (Oenanthe javanica ‘Flamingo') ...
Yellow flag iris (Iris pseudacorus ), greater spearwort (Ranunculus lingua), sedges (Carex spp.), rushes (Juncus spp.), purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), ...
 See also: Rush, Green, Juncus effusus, Cyperus, Primrose
  
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