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§1 Plant
Juncus biflorus Elliott
vernacular bog rush — species · Juncaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Juncaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Juncus
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 129 counties across 14 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- None
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -18 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 145 min.
- Precipitation
- 35–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.5–7
- Root depth
- 14 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 3.5 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Red
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- No
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 129 counties across 14 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 28 N ▾
- Baker 13007
- Baldwin 13009
- Bartow 13015
- Berrien 13019
- Bulloch 13031
- Burke 13033
- Calhoun 13037
- Catoosa 13047
- Charlton 13049
- Chatham 13051
- Cherokee 13057
- Clarke 13059
- Cook 13075
- Elbert 13105
- Hancock 13141
- Irwin 13155
- Jackson 13157
- Jasper 13159
- Lanier 13173
- Madison 13195
- McIntosh 13191
- Miller 13201
- Oglethorpe 13221
- Tattnall 13267
- Tift 13277
- Toombs 13279
- Walker 13295
- Wheeler 13309
Kentucky view state ↗ 44 N ▾
- Adair 21001
- Ballard 21007
- Bell 21013
- Boyd 21019
- Bullitt 21029
- Caldwell 21033
- Calloway 21035
- Carter 21043
- Casey 21045
- Clark 21049
- Crittenden 21055
- Fleming 21069
- Floyd 21071
- Franklin 21073
- Fulton 21075
- Graves 21083
- Grayson 21085
- Harlan 21095
- Henry 21103
- Hickman 21105
- Jackson 21109
- Jefferson 21111
- Johnson 21115
- Letcher 21133
- Lewis 21135
- Lyon 21143
- Madison 21151
- Marshall 21157
- McCracken 21145
- McCreary 21147
- Montgomery 21173
- Nelson 21179
- Oldham 21185
- Perry 21193
- Pike 21195
- Powell 21197
- Pulaski 21199
- Rockcastle 21203
- Rowan 21205
- Todd 21219
- Trigg 21221
- Union 21225
- Wayne 21231
- Whitley 21235
Maryland view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 2 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 9 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 4 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 6 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/JUBI ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2701534 ↗Record version
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