. Common plants of longleaf pine-bluestem range. Plant ecology; Grasses; Forage plants. POVERTY RUSH Juncus tenuis Willd. Poverty rush, known also as hemp rush and wiregrass rush, grows along trails, in yards, and in other places with heavy traffic. It starts growth in late winter, producing small, dense clumps. Ma- ture stalks reach about 2 feet in height. Leaves are mostly basal, usually less than 1/25 inch wide and about half as tall as the flower stalks. Flowers appear in early spring and seeds mature in April or May. Inflorescences rarely exceed 3 inches in length and 1 inch in width. Flo
. Common plants of longleaf pine-bluestem range. Plant ecology; Grasses; Forage plants. POVERTY RUSH Juncus tenuis Willd. Poverty rush, known also as hemp rush and wiregrass rush, grows along trails, in yards, and in other places with heavy traffic. It starts growth in late winter, producing small, dense clumps. Ma- ture stalks reach about 2 feet in height. Leaves are mostly basal, usually less than 1/25 inch wide and about half as tall as the flower stalks. Flowers appear in early spring and seeds mature in April or May. Inflorescences rarely exceed 3 inches in length and 1 inch in width. Flowers, about Va to 3/16 inch in diameter, are borne singly. Leaflike bracts subtend the inflorescence. They are long and narrow, extending above the uppermost flower. Poverty rush resembles another low-growing rush, Juncus dichotomies Ell., which grows, how- ever, mainly on undisturbed sandy sites. Whereas leaves of poverty rush are flattened, those of J. dichotomus are almost cylindrical. In poverty rush, a membranous auricle extends beyond the summit of the leaf sheath; the short, rounded auricle of J. dichotomus is barely perceptible. Because the leaves of both species are narrow, magnification helps in detecting these differences. Poverty rush is seldom grazed except in winter when better herbage is unavailable. On most sites, it supplies little forage. Range: Throughout most of North America. Perennial. Stems in clumps, 10-60 cm. tall; leaves basal, about one-half the height of stems, mm. wide; sheath with scarious margin; auricle scarious,l-3 mm. long; inflor- escence a cyme cm. long, subtended by involucral bracts that often exceed the cyme; flowers 3-5 mm. in di- ameter, borne singly at tips and in axils of ascending branches of cymes; sepals and petals lance-subulate, scarious- margined, equal in size; fruit a capsule, usually exceeded by the Poverty rush 45. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been
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