Common rush
Juncus effusus
In Dutch: Pitrus
Ornamental grassesCollection: Native species
Properties
- Height
- 0.2 to 1 m, sometimes 1.4 m
- Spread
- 0.5 to 1 m
- Full grown after
- 2 to 5 years
- Sun
- Full sun to partial shade
- Soil
- Wet to moist, preferably acid
- Water
- Plenty: the soil must not dry out
- Maintenance
- Low: remove old stems in spring
- Flowers
- June to August, brown, inconspicuous
- For bees
- Little: the wind pollinates the flowers, not a known bee plant
- Hay fever
- Unknown
- Leaves
- Stay green
- Hardy
- Yes
- Native
- Yes
- Poisonous
- No, as far as is known
- Pricks or stings
- No
- Price, young
- About €4.95 to €8.95 each, in a small pot
- Price, grown
- About €9 to €10 each, in a pond basket, from 3 plants
Through the year
- Leaf
- all year
- Flower
- June to August
- Fruit
- August to January