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§1 Plant

Juncus coriaceus Mack.

vernacular leathery rush — species · Juncaceae


USDA
JUCO4
GBIF
2701445
Rank
species
leathery rush (Juncus coriaceus)
Platephotograph · Sam KieschnickCC BY source · iNaturalist ↗

§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

· 296 counties across 11 states/territories
Legend Native · 296 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 296 counties across 11 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 34 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 15 N
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N
Florida view state ↗ 22 N
Georgia view state ↗ 21 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 15 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 40 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 27 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 1 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 69 N
Virginia view state ↗ 51 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/JUCO4 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/2701445 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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