Gardening with Indigenous Plants
Indigenous Plant Use
Identification & Control of Common Weeds
| Botanical Name: | Juncus sarophorus |
| Common Name: | broom rush, fan-flowered rush |
| Sold As: | Tube ($2.00) |
| Plant Type(s): | Rush / Sedge, Grass Like / Strappy, Bird Attracting, Aquatic |
| Growing Conditions: | Partial Shade
Wet, Boggy, Poorly Drained, Aquatic |
| Size (HxW): | 0.6-1.8 m x 0.5-1 m |
| Foliage: | Leaves reduced to a basal sheath to 30 cm long, dark brown to reddish brown towards the base. |
| Flowers: | Dense fan-shaped flowerhead with flowers scattered along many branches; 3 stamens. Main bract continues above flowers for 40 cm. Capsules pale brown with darker tips, shorter than or equal to flowers. November-March |
| General Comments: | A dense tussock-forming perennial of wet areas, and somewhat weedy, its stems reach 2 m long but droop so that the plant overall is closer to 1 m tall. Tufted rush spreading from underground stems. Erect bluish-green stems to 4mm diam. with strongly raised, spaced ridges. Pith white, interrupted with small air spaces. Plant in or beside water areas. Frog habitat, birds like the seeds. |
 Further Information: |
