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§1 Plant
Juncus subcaudatus (Engelm.) Coville & S.F. Blake
vernacular woodland 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
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Native
§2b
County-level range
· 179 counties across 17 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- None
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -8 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 145 min.
- Precipitation
- 36–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.5–6
- Root depth
- 8 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 2.2 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Green
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Summer
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- 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 179 counties across 17 states/territories.
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 3 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 13 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 12 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 16 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 49 N ▾
- Adams 42001
- Armstrong 42005
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bucks 42017
- Butler 42019
- Cambria 42021
- Cameron 42023
- Carbon 42025
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Clarion 42031
- Clearfield 42033
- Clinton 42035
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Elk 42047
- Erie 42049
- Fayette 42051
- Forest 42053
- Franklin 42055
- Huntingdon 42061
- Indiana 42063
- Jefferson 42065
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lancaster 42071
- Lawrence 42073
- Lebanon 42075
- Lehigh 42077
- Luzerne 42079
- Lycoming 42081
- Mercer 42085
- Monroe 42089
- Montgomery 42091
- Montour 42093
- Northampton 42095
- Northumberland 42097
- Philadelphia 42101
- Pike 42103
- Schuylkill 42107
- Somerset 42111
- Tioga 42117
- Venango 42121
- Warren 42123
- Wayne 42127
- Westmoreland 42129
- Wyoming 42131
- York 42133
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 36 N ▾
- Albemarle 51003
- Amherst 51009
- Arlington 51013
- Augusta 51015
- Bath 51017
- Bedford 51019
- Bland 51021
- Caroline 51033
- Carroll 51035
- Charlotte 51037
- Clarke 51043
- Craig 51045
- Fairfax 51059
- Fauquier 51061
- Frederick 51069
- Giles 51071
- Grayson 51077
- Highland 51091
- King and Queen 51097
- Louisa 51109
- Madison 51113
- Montgomery 51121
- Nelson 51125
- Nottoway 51135
- Page 51139
- Patrick 51141
- Prince Edward 51147
- Prince William 51153
- Pulaski 51155
- Rockbridge 51163
- Shenandoah 51171
- Smyth 51173
- Spotsylvania 51177
- Warren 51187
- Washington 51191
- Wythe 51197
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/JUSU ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2702063 ↗Record version
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