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§1 Plant — species · Juncaceae
Juncus bufonius L.
vernacular toad rush
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Juncaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Juncus
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Native
- CAN Canada Native
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Native
§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- None
- Salinity
- Medium
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 47 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 60 min.
- Precipitation
- 10–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.6–7.6
- Root depth
- 6 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Mature height
- 1 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- 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
- Spring
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 45,359,242
- Propagation
- bare root, sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Montana distribution
Recorded in 22 of 56 Montana counties.
Native · 22 counties
- Beaverhead 30001
- Big Horn 30003
- Cascade 30013
- Daniels 30019
- Dawson 30021
- Fallon 30025
- Gallatin 30031
- Glacier 30035
- Golden Valley 30037
- Lake 30047
- Missoula 30063
- Park 30067
- Phillips 30071
- Powder River 30075
- Powell 30077
- Ravalli 30081
- Sheridan 30091
- Silver Bow 30093
- Sweet Grass 30097
- Teton 30099
- Valley 30105
- Wibaux 30109
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/JUBU ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/6413649 ↗Record version
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