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Juncus effusus (common rush; lamp rush)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Juncus effusus, with the common names common rush or soft rush, is a perennial herbaceous flowering plant species in the family Juncaceae. In North America the common name soft rush also refers to Juncus interior.
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Infraspecies

Juncus effusus austrocalifornicus
Juncus effusus decipiens
Juncus effusus effusus
Juncus effusus gracilis
Juncus effusus laxus
Juncus effusus pacificus
Juncus effusus solutus
Juncus effusus var. spiralis

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-High
Screening - Summer [2]  Moderate
Screening - Winter [2]  Porous
Bloom Period [2]  Summer
Drought Tolerance [2]  Medium
Edible [3]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Fire Tolerance [2]  High
Flower Type [3]  Hermaphrodite
Frost Free Days [2]  4 months
Fruit/Seed Abundance [2]  Medium
Fruit/Seed Begin [2]  Summer
Fruit/Seed End [2]  Fall
Growth Form [2]  Bunch
Growth Period [2]  Spring
Growth Rate [2]  Moderate
Hazards [3]  Possibly toxic to mammals;
Leaf Type [4]  Evergreen
Lifespan [3]  Perennial
Pollinators [3]  Wind
Propagation [2]  Seed, Sprig
Regrowth Rate [2]  Slow
Root Depth [2]  24 inches (61 cm)
Seed Spread Rate [2]  Slow
Seed Vigor [2]  High
Seeds Per [2]  45359151 / lb (99999892 / kg)
Shape/Orientation [2]  Erect
Structure [4]  Grass
Usage [3]  Stems are used in basket making, thatching, weaving mats etc; The stems can also be dried then twisted or braided into ropes for tying or binding; Stems can be peeled (except for a small spine which is left to keep them upright) and soaked in oil then used as a candle; A fibre obtained from the stems is used for making paper; The stems are harvested in late summer or autumn, they are split and cut into usable pieces and then soaked for 24 hours in clear water. They are then cooked for 2 hours with lye and beaten in a blender. The fibres make an off-white paper; When mixed with mulberry fibres they can be used for making stencil paper; The whole plant was formerly used as a strewing herb;
Vegetative Spread Rate [2]  None
Flower Color [2]  Brown
Foliage Color [2]  Dark Green
Fruit Color [2]  Yellow
Height [3]  4.92 feet (1.5 m)
Width [3]  20 inches (0.5 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [2]  USDA Zone: 3 Low Temperature: -40 F° (-40 C°) → -30 F° (-34.4 C°)
Light Preference [5]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [5]  Mostly Acid
Soil Fertility [5]  Mostly Infertile
Soil Moisture [5]  Damp
Water Use [2]  Moderate
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Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Cercosporella junci[6]
Stegocintractia junci[6]
Shelter for 
Cicadella viridis[7]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 3Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 4Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 5ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 7Ecology of Commanster
♦ 8Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 9HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 10Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0