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Rush Family
3 species
Path Rush
Order: Juncales
Family: Juncaceae (Rush family)
Genus: Juncus
Species: Tenuis
Kingdom: Plantae
Class: Liliopsida
Perennial - also known as Slender, Field or Poverty Rush
- grows well in compacted soil such as foot paths - native
to Canada
Division: Magnoliophyta (Flowering plants)
Updated January 1 2012
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Path Rush - flower approx. 5 mm - leaves (basal) to 25 cm - height to 60 cm - Leslie Spit - June 2011
Torrey's? Rush
Kingdom: Plantae
Class: Liliopsida
Perennial - native to North America
Division: Magnoliophyta (Flowering plants)
Order: Juncales
Family: Juncaceae (Rush family)
Genus: Juncus
Species: Torreyi?
Torrey's? Rush - panicle to 10 cm - leaves to 30 cm - height to 1 m - Lower Don Valley (Brickworks) - August 2009
Baltic Rush
Order: Juncales
Family: Juncaceae (Rush family)
Genus: Juncus
Species: Balticus (also Arcticus)
Kingdom: Plantae
Class: Liliopsida
Division: Magnoliophyta (Flowering plants)
Updated January 27 2021
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Baltic Rush - flower approx. 5 mm - bract 5 to 40 cm - height to 60 cm - Toronto Islands - June 2018
Perennial - also known as Mountain Rush - stem
terminates at panicle of flowers - what appears to be
continuation of stem is actually a bract - native to North
America