Botanical Name: Juncus effusus v. pacificus
Common Name: Wire grass, Rush
Type of Plant: monocot: perennial
Character evergreen
 
Habit of Growth:
Overall Shape a distinctive plant with its clumping habit of many slender, rather stiff, wiry green stems arching upwards and outwards to form rounded or fountain-like shape
Height 2' - 4'
Spread equal or more
Growth Rate slow
 
Environment:
Exposure outdoors partial sun or shade; tolerates full sun near the coast
Soil moist, wet soils preferred; tolerates most
Hardiness (zones 4-24): hardy, thrives in shaded low-elevation sites
 
Morphology:
Leaves tiny, green, flattened; grasslike, sheathing the stem
Flowers tiny clusters of inconspicuous green flowers, in nearly terminal panicles; not horticulturally important
Fruit a tiny capsule
 
Propagation:
seed, division of clum p
 
Usage:
a very distinctive small accent shrub, valued for its overall form, for wet shaded habitats (stream bed landscapes, pond-sides, etc.); mid-sized filler
 
Landscape Care:
Watering regular; thrives in damp locations; can tolerate some drought if grown in shaded habitats
Fertilizing none is required after established
Pruning none
Pests/Diseases relatively free
Special Conditions/Other riparian/meadows coastal mtns, valleys
 
Origin: Southern California
Family: Juncaceae

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