Path Rush (Juncus tenuis) is a low-maintenance, highly adaptable native plant that brings subtle elegance to any garden or landscape. Its slender, upright stems and vibrant green foliage make it an attractive choice for pathways, borders, and naturalized areas. With its ability to thrive in sun or shade and its tolerance for challenging conditions like wet soils and slopes, Path Rush is both functional and visually appealing. Its role in preventing erosion and managing excess water makes it a perfect fit for rain gardens, slopes, and flood-prone areas.

Key Features:

• Elegant Appearance: Slender, erect stems and bright green foliage add texture and a graceful touch to gardens and landscapes.
• Wildlife Support: Provides shelter and habitat for birds, while attracting pollinators like butterflies, moths, and bees.
• Erosion Control: Helps stabilize slopes and prevent soil erosion, making it a practical choice for challenging areas.
• Water Management: Thrives in wet conditions, making it ideal for rain gardens and areas prone to flooding.
• Highly Adaptable: Grows well in both sun and shade, and tolerates a variety of soil types, including sandy or clay soils.
• Low Maintenance: Once established, it requires little care or water, thriving in sustainable landscapes.
• Deer Resistant: Resilient to deer browsing, ensuring its lasting beauty in your garden.
• Eco-Friendly: Grown non-GMO and free of harmful neonicotinoids, promoting a healthy ecosystem for pollinators and wildlife.

Available in sets of three, six, or 12 plants to fit gardens of any size.

Why Choose Path Rush?

Path Rush is more than just an elegant addition to your garden—it’s a hardworking plant that supports wildlife, stabilizes soil, and manages water in challenging areas. Whether used to line a pathway, naturalize a rain garden, or enhance a shady border, this versatile native plant offers both functionality and beauty.

Planting Tips:

1. Location: Thrives in full sun to part shade with moist, well-drained soil; tolerates a variety of conditions, from dry to wet soils.
2. Watering: Water regularly during the first growing season to establish roots. Once established, it is drought-tolerant but thrives in moist conditions.
3. Maintenance: Minimal care required. Leave stems standing through fall and winter to provide habitat for overwintering insects and add winter interest. If desired, cut back the stems in late spring after pollinators have emerged. 

For more information on planting, view our How to Plant Your Native Plants guide and other planting tips in the Garden for Wildlife Learning Center. 

Enhance your landscape with the functionality and beauty of Path Rush (Juncus tenuis). Its adaptability, wildlife support, and ability to manage water make it a standout choice for any garden.

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Returns: Due to the nature of our products, we are unable to offer order cancellations, returns or exchanges. In order to guarantee your satisfaction, all plants are covered by our 365-Day Plant Guarantee.

*To ensure your plants arrive healthy, we may delay shipments to certain areas during times of extreme temperatures, natural disasters, or other conditions that will impact the plants during transit

Sizing: At the time of shipment, our plants have a developed root mass and emerging foliage around 4-8” high.

Recommended container sizes (in width) for container planting:

• 12 In
• 18 In
• 24 In
• 36 In
• 48 In