(Dark Green Bulrush)
- Type:
- Grass
- Light Exposure:
- Full Sun
- Soil Moisture:
- Medium, Wet
- Height:
- 5 feet
- Project:
- Boulevard, Erosion Control, Restoration
- Bloom Color:
- Brown, Green, Yellow
- Bloom Months:
- July, August
- Flooding / Inundation Tolerance:
- High
- Salt Tolerance:
- Medium
- Stress Tolerance:
- Fire Tolerant, General Disturbance
- Herbivore Sensitivity:
- Medium
- Behavior (Rate of Spread):
- 2
- Pollinator Value:
- Medium
- Benefit to Pollinators:
- Larval Food
- Pollinators:
- Larval Host (Butterfly), Larval Host (Moth), Wind
- Counties:
- Aitkin, Anoka, Becker, Beltrami, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carlton, Carver, Cass, Chisago, Clearwater, Cook, Crow Wing, Dakota, Dodgee, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Grant, Hennepin, Houston, Isanti, Itasca, Kandiyohi, Kandiyohibec, Koochiching, Lake, Lake of the Woods, Le Sueur, Mahnomen, Meeker, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Mower, Nicollet, Olmsted, Otter Tail, Pennington, Pine, Polk, Pope, Ramsey, Rice, Roseau, SCottonwood, Sherburne, Sibley, St. Louis, Stearns, Steele, Todd, Wabasha, Wadena, Washington, Winona, Wright
Notes/Description:
Green bulrush is a common, short-lived, pioneer, emergent, native perennial with course clump form and nice clusters of small, brown heads that may reach a height of 5'. It is well-suited to controlling erosion along shorelines, ditches, stream banks, meadows and thickets. it is a good pioneer species that will vegetate a site quickly with a decorative bunching form. It is a frequent pioneering colonizer of wetland mitigation sites and disturbed areas.