zone: 4 - 9
height: 2 - 4 ft
bloom time: jun - aug
sun: full sun
water: wet
habitat value: food and shelter for invertebrates, songbirds, and waterfowl
Looking to add bold vertical texture, year-round interest, and ecological function to your landscape? Meet Common Rush is a striking, grass-like native plant that thrives where others falter — in wet soils, rain gardens, and shoreline settings. With its upright, cylindrical stems forming dense, fountain-like clumps, Juncus effusus offers a clean, architectural look perfect for modern landscapes or naturalistic plantings. Its unbranched, smooth green stems add structure and movement, swaying gently in the breeze and catching the light like living sculpture. In mid to late summer, it surprises with delicate, golden-brown flower clusters emerging just below the stem tips — small but elegant, adding quiet charm and supporting native insects.
Looking to add bold vertical texture, year-round interest, and ecological function to your landscape? Meet Common Rush is a striking, grass-like native plant that thrives where others falter — in wet soils, rain gardens, and shoreline settings. With its upright, cylindrical stems forming dense, fountain-like clumps, Juncus effusus offers a clean, architectural look perfect for modern landscapes or naturalistic plantings. Its unbranched, smooth green stems add structure and movement, swaying gently in the breeze and catching the light like living sculpture. In mid to late summer, it surprises with delicate, golden-brown flower clusters emerging just below the stem tips — small but elegant, adding quiet charm and supporting native insects.
zone: 4 - 9
height: 2 - 4 ft
bloom time: jun - aug
sun: full sun
water: wet
habitat value: food and shelter for invertebrates, songbirds, and waterfowl