Juncus effusus, with the common names common rush or soft rush, is a perennial herbaceous flowering plant, with grasslike-like, rhizomatous, wetland perennial that features smooth, upright, cylindrical, unjointed, spire-like green stems which grow in spreading basal clumps to 20-40 inches tall. Insignificant, minute, yellowish-green to pale brown flowers bloom in one-sided clusters located on stem sides slightly below the stem tips. Flowers emerge in summer (July to September). Although the stems appear from a distance as coarse and stiff, they are soft to the touch. Foliage turns yellow in fall before browning up for winter. This plant is easily grown in moist to wet soils in full sun to part shade, best in full sun. It also performs well in standing water to 4” deep, but will also grow well in garden soils as long as the soils are in fact kept consistently moist. Foliage remains evergreen in warm winter climates or when grown indoors as a houseplant. Old foliage should be cut back in early spring. Soft Rush is often found growing in ditches, bogs, swamps, marshes, wet pastures, and along the margins of lakes and rivers.

This plant is sold and shipped in a 1 gallon container