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§1 Plant

Juncus arcticus Willd.

vernacular arctic rush — species · Juncaceae


USDA
JUAR2
GBIF
2701151
Rank
species
arctic rush (Juncus arcticus)
Platephotograph · Joe Rizzi source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Graminoid
Duration
Perennial
Group
Monocot
Family
Juncaceae Juss.
Genus
Juncus
§2a

Native status, by region

  • AK Alaska Native
  • CAN Canada Native
  • GL Greenland Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
  • SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Native
§2b

County-level range

· 675 counties across 36 states/territories
Legend Native · 22 Introduced · 0 Both · 653 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 675 counties across 36 states/territories.

Alaska view state ↗ 22 N
Arizona view state ↗ 8 B
Arkansas view state ↗ 3 B
California view state ↗ 49 B
Colorado view state ↗ 46 B
Idaho view state ↗ 35 B
Illinois view state ↗ 8 B
Indiana view state ↗ 5 B
Iowa view state ↗ 4 B
Kansas view state ↗ 11 B
Maine view state ↗ 10 B
Maryland view state ↗ 1 B
Massachusetts view state ↗ 10 B
Michigan view state ↗ 45 B
Minnesota view state ↗ 59 B
Missouri view state ↗ 2 B
Montana view state ↗ 30 B
Nebraska view state ↗ 41 B
Nevada view state ↗ 14 B
New Hampshire view state ↗ 2 B
New Mexico view state ↗ 16 B
New York view state ↗ 17 B
North Dakota view state ↗ 46 B
Ohio view state ↗ 9 B
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 B
Oregon view state ↗ 28 B
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 7 B
South Dakota view state ↗ 17 B
Texas view state ↗ 8 B
Utah view state ↗ 29 B
Vermont view state ↗ 1 B
Virginia view state ↗ 3 B
Washington view state ↗ 30 B
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 B
Wisconsin view state ↗ 36 B
Wyoming view state ↗ 21 B

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/JUAR2 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/2701151 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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